Bangladesh has been ranked 151st out of 180 countries in this year’s World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) by Reporters Without Borders.
Category: Media
Facebook launches app for livestream gaming
Facebook on Monday launched a standalone gaming app, allowing users to create and watch livestreams of games in a challenge to the Amazon-owned Twitch platform.
Press council issues letters for journos incentives
Dhaka, April 21 – Bangladesh Press Council on Monday sent letters to all deputy commissioners to make a special list of journalists to bring them under special stimulus facilities in the wake of coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
Jatiya Press Club forms doctors’ panel for its members
Jatiya Press Club (JPC) has constituted a panel of five doctors for providing emergency medical services to its members during this time of coronavirus crisis. JPC members can call the doctors and get advice and treatment, said a press release…
Senior Journalist Abu Zafar Panna passes away
Senior journalist Abu Zafar Panna died of a brain haemorrhage at the National Neuroscience Hospital on Friday afternoon. He was 77. He was admitted to the hospital when he suffered a massive stroke a couple of days before.
16 journalists tested Covid-19 positive so far, says DUJ
Leaders of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) on Friday expressed deep concerns as 16 journalists, including nine in Dhaka alone, were infected with coronavirus.
Community Radio Response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh
AHM Bazlur Rahman Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been mobilizing all community radios for developing and broadcasting awareness-building programs on COVID-19: Coronavirus contamination to protect lives and livelihoods since March 1, 2020. www.bnnrc.net
ATN News TV journo tests Covid-19 positive; 20 quarantined
Twenty staff members of ATN News, a private TV channel, have been sent on home-quarantine after one of their colleagues has tested positive for coronavirus.
1st results in on Gilead coronavirus drug; more study needed
More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients improved after receiving an experimental antiviral drug, although there’s no way to know the odds of that happening without the drug because there was no comparison group, doctors reported…
Ensure TV journos’ health security, pay dues: Minister
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday urged journalist leaders and television managing committees to ensure health security and pay dues for those working at private channels.
Can India’s print newspapers survive the Covid-19 pandemic
by Nava Thakuria As an unprecedented lockdown continues in India, the newspaper groups face an uphill task to maintain their readership. The complete shutdown, to continue till 14 April, instantly stopped the vendors from delivering morning newspapers to reader’s doorsteps…
Veteran journalist Roushanuzzaman passes away
Dhaka, April 08 – Roushanuzzaman, a veteran journalist and former executive editor of United News of Bangladesh (UNB), passed away on Wednesday. He was 70.
Independent TV journo tests virus positive; 47 quarantined
Forty-seven employees of private television channel Independent have been put under home-quarantine after one of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus.
Dhaka Reporters Unity launches ambulance service for members
Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) has launched an ambulance services for its members and their families as Bangladesh reported second death from coronavirus (Covid-19).
Kurigram tortured journalist returns home after 7 days
Journalist Ariful Islam Rigan, who was jailed through a mobile court earlier this month and tortured , returned home from hospital on Saturday.
CJA demands immediate release of Jang Group Editor in Chief
The Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) calls on the Government of Pakistan to release the Jang Group Editor-in-Chief, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, who has been in detention since 12 March. His arrest and detention by the National Accountability Bureau before substantive hearings have…
HC grants Manavzamin Editor Matiur Rahman Chowdhury bail
Dhaka, March 18 – The High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail for four weeks to Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, editor-in-chief of Bangla daily Manabzamin, in a case filed on the charge of “publishing false news and circulating it on social…
Media under grip of ‘pro-govt’ businessesmen: BNP
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday bemoaned that the country’s media industry is now ‘under the grip of businessmen who cannot go against the government to protect their own interests’.
BNNRC recognized for 4th time Champions UN WSIS Prizes 2020
The Media development-related initiative of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been recognized for 4th time as Champions in UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Prizes 2020.
Facebook shuts London, Singapore offices after coronavirus case
LONDON, March 7, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Facebook said Friday it was shutting its London office and part of its Singapore base for “deep cleaning” after an employee in the Asian city state was diagnosed with coronavirus.
Govt loss Tk 120bn a year as cable TV operators under-report
The government loses Tk 10,000-12,000 in revenue every year as the cable operators are not digitised their services, said Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday.
Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman gets bail in death case
A court here on Monday granted bail to Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Nayeemul Abrar Rahat.
Freedom of media needed for equity-based society: Minister
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Friday said the freedom of media is needed to build an equity-based society in the country.
Attack on journalist on election day: Accused put on remand
A court here on Thursday placed a man on a one-day remand in a case over attacking a journalist on the day of Dhaka City Corporations elections.
Journalists asked to evolve to keep up with change
In the age of social media, citizens are not safe from the risks that affect journalists, and there is no alternative to developing awareness and technological skills for everyone to keep up with the changing times, speakers at a programme…
Selling .ORG puts civil society at risk, say Int’l NGO leaders
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Today, the executive directors of 11 international NGOs released an open letter calling on the leaders of Internet Society (ISOC) and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to stop the sale of the .ORG top-level…
56 journalists killed in 2019, mostly outside conflict zones
There were 56 journalists killed in 2019 and most of them were killed outside zones of conflict, a United Nations spokesperson said Monday.
Daily Sangram office vandalised, editor handed over to police
Dhaka, Dec 13 – A group of people vandalised The Daily Sangram’s office in Dhaka after the newspaper published a report describing as ‘a martyr’ Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla, who was hanged for war crimes.
Google bans Conservative Party YouTube ad with BBC material
LONDON, DECEMBER 04, 2019 – Google has taken down a U.K. Conservative Party ad on YouTube that used BBC news footage, days after Facebook took similar action on grounds that it infringed intellectual property rights.
Azad DRU president, Reaz general secretary
Dhaka, Nov 30 – Rafiqul Islam Azad of the Daily Independent and Reaz Chowdhury of theasianmail.com were elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) respectively in an election on Saturday.