A media reform commission would be formed in consultation with the relevant stakeholders, said Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md. Nahid Islam on Monday.
"This matter is being discussed formally and informally with the concerned media persons," he said while addressing an open-discussion on "Reforms of Media: Why? How?" at the National Press Club in the capital.
Mentioning that salaries of journalists should be ensured as per the Wage Board, the advisor said that there is no scope to treat journalists like a slave, state news agency BSS reports.
About the professionalism of journalists, Nahid Islam said, "All the issues are being reviewed that why journalists can't work with professionalism."
He, however, observed that media literacy has not developed in the country, saying the culture of professionalism in the media is absent in Bangladesh.
"A required measure would be taken on the basis of consensus following discussion with the stakeholders (of media)," Nahid said, adding that journalist organizations have an important role in this regard.
Referring to the recent student-people uprising, the advisor said that this revolution is a big case-study for the media.
"The role of the media in this mass upsurge must be closely reviewed," he added.
Nahid alleged that electronic media didn't publish any information in favor of the movement during the student-people uprising, saying the country's people knew what the electronic media aired at that time.
The adviser also laid emphasis on the reform of the state-run media.
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam, Director General of Press Institute Bangladesh Faruk Wasif, and Dhaka University's Department of Mass Communication and Journalism teacher Dr. Saiful Alam Chowdhury, among others, also spoke.
Journalist Jimmy Amir presented the keynote paper in this discussion organized by Media Support Network.
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