RONI HILLS, Sep 13: The Department of Mass Communication, Rajiv Gandhi University conducted its annual Orientation Day Lecture for its new batch of MA, Post Graduate Diploma (PGDMC) and Ph.D. programmes. 
Renowned journalist and editor-in-chief of EastMojo, Karma Paljor delivered the orientation day lecture titled “Journalism needs a fix”. He deliberated that in today’s scenario, there is a bigger challenge for journalists being credible in presenting the story. With citizen journalists and digital media enabling everyone to publish stories in social media, the challenge is even more. 
He shared at length about the need for journalists to become hard hitting in their stories which in turn, needs lots of in-depth research and a more analytical approach. Karma also spoke about the new and exciting world which journalism is experiencing right now with the coming of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) platforms being introduced in the field. 
“The world has become more interactive wherein computer bots and complex algorithms are being used in editorial works. This also bring about lots of opportunities for creating hyper local and hyper niche content where agile media houses have an advantage, which is always an exciting phase for young entrepreneurs”, he said. 
Exhorting the participants to create credible research-backed news reports, Karma said that the only way to balance the unvalidated reporting on social media platforms, is for journalists to report with integrity and it is only through by doing this, such platforms can be countered. Later, he also had a very enriching interactive Q&A session with the newly admitted students.
In the latter part of the orientation programme, faculty members of the department interacted with all the students, individually discussing their aspiration and expectations from the course. 

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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