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

In this age of “deepfake” technological innovation and TikTok type speed news, journalism is going through a disaster each at the institutional as properly as individual degrees, Ravish Kumar, senior journalist and recipient of the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay award, said on Friday. Cautioning towards effortless journalism, he said it was up to the media to choose between a pond and a sea.

“This is an age in which we are not data seekers, we are narrative seekers,” Kumar said at a functionality organised to present the Organization Conventional-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Print Journalism 2019.

He said while media institutions, primarily tv news, could have failed to continue to keep the have confidence in of the people today, couple of individuals in the job were being expanding their boundaries. “We have chosen our ponds and we are not all set to embark on a sea voyage,” Kumar said, while pointing out that pursuing authentic journalism, even if it’s unexciting, would help you save the upcoming of media. News, which at the time empowered citizens of the state, is now disempowering them, managing director, NDTV India, said.

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

Previously in the evening, Kumar introduced the Organization Conventional-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 advanced trade and financial concerns.

The award, supplied just about every 12 months to a journalist less than the age of 30, carries a prize of Rs 50,000, a silver pen and a quotation. Chakraborty is the 21st recipient of the award, instituted by Organization Conventional and the Nazareth family in memory of Seema Nazareth, a youthful Organization Conventional journalist who died on March 19, 1999.

The jury also recognised Vireshwar Tomar of Organization Conventional Hindi version for his contribution on a assorted range of subjects from blockchain technological innovation to socio-financial concerns.

Speaking on the situation, Seema’s father P A Nazareth said the award was getting away on his daughter’s start anniversary. He also talked about the ability of non-violence as preached by Mahatma Gandhi, juxtaposing it towards the danger of communalism in the state. “Religious tolerance was India’s present to the world,” he said.