Bhairahawa, Nov. 17
Lumbini News Fair 2019 kicked off in Lumbini
from Sunday.
Lumbini Press Club in Siddarthanagar of
Rupandehi has organised the 3-day news fair with the theme ‘Communication in
federalism, Mofussil is the mainstream for prosperity’.
President of the club Dipesh Pachhai said that
the event was attended by journalists from various media across the country.
Chief Minister of State 5 Shankar Pokharel
inaugurated the fair and said that development and prosperity were the common
agenda of the country. He urged the media to move ahead in the same direction
and support to achieve the national aspiration of ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy
Nepali’.
Stating that the country was moving ahead with
its head high he said that the three levels of governments were working to
achieve the development and prosperity targets according to the constitution.
Speaking at an interaction session on
‘Journalism: Challenges and Future’ before the inauguration of the event,
journalists said that they had a cumpulsion to work in more than one media.
They also said the recent development of social media had created various
challenges for the journalists and journalism.
They said that all the media stakeholders
needed to concentrate on resolving the current challenges in media.
Chairman of the Press Council Nepal Kishor
Shrestha said that the media monitoring body was receiving higher number of
complaint about the news published in various online news portals.
He urged the journalists not to make hurry
while preparing a news.
“The main problem in this profession is the
copy-pasting of news items written by others. We need more investigative
journalism,” he said.
Shrestha said that journalism would remain as a
profession for a long time in future.
According to him, there are two major
challenges to the media now – payment of the basic salary to the journalists
and operating local media houses outside the Kathmandu Valley.
Chairman of the Centre for Investigative
Journalists and former President of Federation of Nepali Journalists Shiva
Gaunle pointed towards the need of asking questions to the authorities by
digging out the hidden facts and information.
“Media should not be the spokesperson of the
government, but instead should ask questions to the government,” he said.
Former President of the FNJ Bishnu Nisthuri
said that the dual character of journalists had obstructed the objective
reporting.
He said that the cadres of political parties
must not talk about journalism. He also suggested the journalists and media to
enhance the quality of information.
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