Beyond the immediate challenges of political interference and legal harassment, Bangladesh’s media faces deeper structural problems.

However bright our past may be, there is an urgent need to further strengthen public confidence in journalism.

Editors are in quite a fix.

Public engagement does not necessarily equal public interest, and certainly not public benefit.

The concept of sustainable journalism is yet to get currency in Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh Press Council is fully dependent on government funding. As a result, its independence to act as a self-regulatory body remains susceptible to government interference.

Is not the media already under duress, and its function heavily encumbered by the Digital Security Act (DSA), without needing a new law which is now on the anvil of the Bangladesh Press Council (BPC)?