Chandigarh: Two-day workshop on media crises, fake news concludes
TNN | Mar 11, 2019, 07:31 IST
A panel discussion on fake news was held at Panjab University.CHANDIGARH: The two-day national seminar on 'Crises in media: An existential conundrum' organised by ICSSR (NW) and School of Communication Studies, Panjab University concluded here on Sunday with a panel discussion on fake news, the role of education to train journalists and the thriving virtual media.
Mukesh Kharbanda, MD Fusion PR, said, "Media is not in any crises, it is flourishing however, the casualty is media" and also added that advertising budgets are on the rise. Professor Manoj Dayal suggested that while they teach media students about the ethics and journalistic codes, there is a lack of the same in practice.
The two technical sessions preceding the panel discussion saw over one dozen papers on various topics like fake news, coverage of health issues in media, advertising and its effects and public relations handling of crises situations.
Prof Archana Singh, chairperson, School of Communication Studies presented the seminar report and said that it has been a productive session.
The first day saw speakers discuss various aspects of reporting during crises situations, the ethics of journalism as well as the spread of fake and paid news. The seminar began with P P Singh Memorial Lecture. The first technical session saw three research paper presentations which was chaired by Prof Bindu Sharma. Divya Jyoti Randev presented a paper on 'The use of quotes from anonymous sources: A content analysis'. Sumedha Singh presented a paper on the topic 'The relevance of spiritual leadership in the life of crisis reporters: A review'. The third paper titled 'Rape reporting: An analysis of local coverage of top circulated English and Hindi daily newspaper in Chandigarh'.
The second session saw two paper presentations, one titled 'ICT device consumption by farmers: Usage or addiction' which was presented by Neha Saroj and the other titled, 'Prevalence of journalistic malpractices afflicting objective reporting- a study' which was presented by Gurjeet Kaur.
Mukesh Kharbanda, MD Fusion PR, said, "Media is not in any crises, it is flourishing however, the casualty is media" and also added that advertising budgets are on the rise. Professor Manoj Dayal suggested that while they teach media students about the ethics and journalistic codes, there is a lack of the same in practice.
The two technical sessions preceding the panel discussion saw over one dozen papers on various topics like fake news, coverage of health issues in media, advertising and its effects and public relations handling of crises situations.
Prof Archana Singh, chairperson, School of Communication Studies presented the seminar report and said that it has been a productive session.
The first day saw speakers discuss various aspects of reporting during crises situations, the ethics of journalism as well as the spread of fake and paid news. The seminar began with P P Singh Memorial Lecture. The first technical session saw three research paper presentations which was chaired by Prof Bindu Sharma. Divya Jyoti Randev presented a paper on 'The use of quotes from anonymous sources: A content analysis'. Sumedha Singh presented a paper on the topic 'The relevance of spiritual leadership in the life of crisis reporters: A review'. The third paper titled 'Rape reporting: An analysis of local coverage of top circulated English and Hindi daily newspaper in Chandigarh'.
The second session saw two paper presentations, one titled 'ICT device consumption by farmers: Usage or addiction' which was presented by Neha Saroj and the other titled, 'Prevalence of journalistic malpractices afflicting objective reporting- a study' which was presented by Gurjeet Kaur.
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