The decades of 1980s and 1990s were the golden era for the print and electronic media, but today journalism is passing through a dark period. Still, there is a ray hope for journalism, said senior journalist and Editor, Rajya Sabha TV, Rajesh Badal while addressing 54th foundation day of Indore Press Club on Thursday. He said once upon a time, Indore was a hub of journalism.
The city has given some great journalists and editors to the country like Rahul Barpute, Prabhash Joshi and Rajendra Mathur, who created a new generation of journalism and journalists and brought laurels to the city, he added.
Senior journalist Umesh Trivedi said that in an era where there is a wave of information blowing across the country and the world, publishing news with credibility has become a big challenge for the journalists. He asked journalists to keep their passion towards journalism intact and be honest to their profession.
On the occasion, a seminar on ‘Journalism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ was also held wherein senior journalists Shashindra Jaldhari, Kirti Rana, Navneet Shukla and photojournalist Akhil Hardia spoke on various shades of journalism and how it has undergone a change in all these years.