Broadcasting policy on cards, says info minister
Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad yesterday said the government would form a world-class broadcasting policy in consultation with all classes of media personalities to run the country's broadcasting media.
He said police would guide visual journalists to broadcast programmes and news items without interfering in their creativity and freedom of expression.
He was speaking at a seminar, “Current Status of Mass Media and Broadcasting Policy”, organised by Dhaka University Journalists' Association (Duja) at Dhaka University Senate Building marking its 26th anniversary.
They have been working to ensure transparency and accountability of the mass media, said Abul Kalam, adding that the government took steps to establish a fund for the betterment of poor, ill and injured journalists.
Terming journalist couple Sagar-Runi's murder 'incomprehensible and sorrowful', he said the government is trying its best to nab the killers.
DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the programme, presided over by Duja president Hasan Nitol.
News Today Editor Reazuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists President Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury and Bhorer Kagoj Editor Shyamol Dutta addressed the programme.
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