Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday appealed media persons to report positive aspects of the society also. Positive news is also news. Positive news will create positive mindset. News should be based on facts and not on fake content. Digital journalism will be the future.
Chouhan was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the three-day international web conference on “Innovative Business Practices in Digital Era”, organised by Department of Media Management of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal.
Chouhan said Covid-19 taught us many lessons and amid crisis, we explored opportunities. There has been a revolution in online sector. The Government not only informed people about the Government schemes and programme, it also provided facilities to people through digital platforms. Calling upon media students to be technology savvy, the Chief Minister said that media students will have to be multi-tasking. Students passed out from Makhanlal Chaturvedi Journalism University will set new milestones of success in media sectors. He said, we should prepare journalists who serve the country considering the nation and public interest first and perform value based journalism.
Keynote speaker of the inaugural session, CEO, MCM Prime (USA) Mihalis Halkides presented a research report based on World Bank data on “The IE Twizzle & 3 IR/4IR Industries & Markets: A promising future for humanity”. He said business practices having innovative approach will survive in third and fourth industrial revolution. The scalability of the particular industry will depend on value-added services and features and its clubbing with digital platforms. Technology, electronic devices, computer and internet will play a major role in the success of business in 3 IR and 4 IR. We are in transition phase and moving from 2 IR to 3 IR.
Industries will collaborate with each-other. Horizontal markets, co-opetition, not competition, co-create, co-capture values will dominate business models. He explained this phenomenon through S-Curve model in Innovation-Entrepreneurship (IE) Twizzle.