GAZIPUR, Dec 30, 2024 (BSS) - Managing Director of Bangladesh Journalists 
Welfare Trust (BJWT) M. Abdullah today said it's time for journalists to 
prove themselves through work as there is no obstacle in carrying out 
objective journalism now. 

"If journalists write the truth, the administration or any group no longer 
puts pressure on them. In the last 16 years, free journalism was hindered in 
a fascist manner but all inhibition and fears removed after the changeover of 
August 5," he said.

M. Abdullah said these while addressing at the concluding ceremony of a 
three-day training on "News Reporting and Narration" as the chief guest.

Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB) organized the programme at the Gazipur Zilla 
Parishad auditorium this afternoon.

Now journalists have to play a role in building a new Bangladesh, he said. 

Under the initiative of Gazipur Journalists Union, PIB Director General (DG) 
Faruk Wasif presided over the closing ceremony of the training session.

The programme, moderated by PIB trainer Mohammad Shah Alam Saikat, was 
addressed among others, by Gazipur Journalists Union President Delwar 
Hossain, its General Secretary Muhammad Hedayet Ullah, President of Gazipur 
Press Club Mostafizur Rahman Titu, its Vice-President Md. Rezaul Bari Babul 
and General Secretary Shah Shamsul Haque Ripon. 

A total of 35 journalists, working in various print and electronic media of 
the district, participated in the three-day training.

The training focused on informing about the challenges of investigative 
journalism in the contemporary context and providing information about the 
means, investigative reporting, fact checking and mobile journalism.