Fact-based news helps build a society and strengthens Democracy and, thus, media reporters should understand this very essence and file genuine reports only.
Noted speakers viewed this at the National Press Day celebrated by the National Journalists’ Welfare Association (NJWA) here on November 16.
Odisha High Court Justice Bishwanath Rath and Chit Fund Commission Chairman Justice Madan Mohan Das graced as guests in the meeting presided over by ‘Samaja’ editor Bamapada Tripathy.
‘Prajatantra’ editor and MP Bhartruhari Mahtab was conferred with the ‘Utkal Sambadika Ratna’ award and six newspaper editors of outside the State were felicitated with the ‘Rashtriy Gourab Samman’. As many as 22 senior journalists were given pensions on the occasion.
Senior journalist Arun Panda presided over a seminar titled ‘Digital age challenges towards moral values.
Among others, Development Commissioner R Balkrishnan, MP Prasanna Patsani, SC and ST Development Minister Ramesh Majhi and journalists like Rajaram Satpathy and Lok Sevak Mandal lifetime member Dr Pravash Chandra Acharya spoke.