BS-Seema Nazareth Award 2019: Shun ‘easy’ journalism, says Ravish Kumar

In this age of “deepfake” technologies and TikTok model velocity news, journalism is struggling with a crisis both of those at the institutional as effectively as unique concentrations, Ravish Kumar, senior journalist and recipient of the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay award, stated on Friday. Cautioning towards easy journalism, he stated it was up to the media to decide on among a pond and a sea.

“This is an age in which we are not data seekers, we are narrative seekers,” Kumar stated at a purpose organised to existing the Business enterprise Regular-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Print Journalism 2019.

He stated although media institutions, in particular television news, could have failed to retain the have faith in of the folks, number of folks in the profession had been increasing their boundaries. “We have chosen our ponds and we are not ready to embark on a sea voyage,” Kumar stated, although pointing out that pursuing genuine journalism, even if it’s tedious, would help you save the long run of media. Information, which at the time empowered citizens of the state, is now disempowering them, managing director, NDTV India, stated.

Ravish Kumar, senior journalist and recipient of the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay award, at the Business enterprise Regular-Seema Nazareth Award for excellence in Print journalism in New Delhi | Photo: DALIP KUMAR

Earlier in the evening, Kumar presented the Business enterprise Regular-Seema Nazareth Award to Subhayan Chakraborty, a senior correspondent with the newspaper’s New Delhi bureau. Chakraborty was picked for the award for his knowledge of intricate trade and economic concerns.

The award, provided every single yr to a journalist less than the age of thirty, carries a prize of Rs 50,000, a silver pen and a citation. Chakraborty is the 21st recipient of the award, instituted by Business enterprise Regular and the Nazareth family in memory of Seema Nazareth, a younger Business enterprise Regular journalist who died on March 19, 1999.

The jury also recognised Vireshwar Tomar of Business enterprise Regular Hindi edition for his contribution on a numerous assortment of subjects from blockchain technologies to socio-economic concerns.

Talking on the situation, Seema’s father P A Nazareth stated the award was remaining absent on his daughter’s beginning anniversary. He also talked about the electricity of non-violence as preached by Mahatma Gandhi, juxtaposing it towards the menace of communalism in the state. “Religious tolerance was India’s present to the earth,” he stated.