Faruq Wasif strongly urged journalists to play a key role in the development of infrastructure.

PIB organized a discussion meeting titled “Journalism during the time of national transformation” on the 7th floor of the of the building named Chattogram Press Club auditorium in Jamal Khan  on the afternoon of January 21 in Chattogram. CMUJ cooperated in this.

whole program moderate by Parveen Sultana Rabbi. But their have no free discussions with participate for time shortage.

In his speech as the chairman, PIB’s Director General said, “If we return to the culture of taking the envelope, the outcome will be the same.” He said that fascism may not return, but various conspiracies are going on both domestic and foreign, journalists should keep an eye on it, it is the responsibility of journalists to show the right path to the nation by presenting the truth to the common people of the country.
He said that those who own newspapers should manage journalists, and it should also be determined who will own Media.

He said that now a few people can do journalism online through a Facebook group, truth can be practiced. The nation can be shown the way. He gave priority to investigative journalism instead of doing journalism.

Among the discussants, Faisal Mahmud said “As a student we learn form our senior”
The salary of journalists is very small compared to any other labor, many institutions may not pay salaries. Even after this, we have to follow the basic rules of journalism.

CU Professor R-Razi said “The only job of journalists is to maintain democracy” Highlighting the words of the people, still does not change the thinking, does not change the bit in journalism.

Sumon Rahaman, gave several guiding speeches to journalists. He said that I am a journalism teacher but I have not done journalism. He said “It is difficult to question power”. During the pandemic, we worked in a room with a “fact check watch”, then it gradually spread. There were threats about this too, but we have been working and have not stopped. The Media Reform Commission is being formed, the media will not be reformed or closed, in the mass uprising of the 24th century, a foreign online Netranews platform has done more work than our domestic media.

CMUJ president Mohammad Shahnewaz said as a guest speaker, there is a lot to say, but the guest’s speech cannot be prolonged. I will only say this much, no one has revealed that you have to be a journalist. Instead of journalism, you do contracting, there are many other professions that you do. However, to be a journalist, you have to tell the truth. Talking about July Avhuthyan, he said – “I could not sleep at night, I would spend the night crying and thinking, in the morning I would go out without anyone seeing me”. What is happening, so many dead bodies, is there no mercy…!
He said that if journalists had practiced proper journalism, then maybe we would not have seen so many dead bodies.