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Panel Discussion: Future-proofing of Journalists
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Vishruthi Girish
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Hello and welcome to the next panel discussion on The Media Rumble. We have eminent panelists to speak on the "Future-proofing of Journalists"
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Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, the moderator, introduces and welcomes the panelists
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Ritu Kapur begins the discussion by speaking about the importance of innovation in the newsroom, which facilitates self-sufficiency of every individual working in it
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"By being frugal and innovative has been useful despite not being prepared for the pandemic. The silver lining is that we are a far more distributed newsroom," says Ritu Kapur, founder of The Quint.
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Ritu Kapur further talks about the gender aspect of upscaling, in order to employ more women in the field. She says "Unfortunately the kind of impact we've had on the young female team members, especially young mothers, they don't have the gateaway. 
There's way too many social expectations being that there is a couple staying home, the woman should take the domestic work."
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"We teach women how to get jobs but we don't teach them how to keep jobs" says Anuradha Das Mathur, founding Dean of The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women. 
She speaks about the disparity in sex ratio in newsrooms. She asserts that managerial skills are equally as important as skill-specific positions, and this could be a plausible reason why India has lost so many women from its workforce.
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Anuradha asks "How do you expect women to negotiate for themselves, when our culture demands that women be given last preference, in the name of 'selflessness'" She asserts that discipline and inputs are gender-neutral traits.
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Independent journalist Neha Dixit now shares her insights on the challenges of her profession. "Things have been difficult as there is no institutional support as we do not have press cards or taxis," she says.
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Neha lauds the collaborative culture that is slowly seeping into journalism, greatly benefitting independent journalists from different cities.
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She emphasizes on the need for authentic, local journalism. "Focus on the area that are you in, don't worry if there is no mobility because of the lock-down," she says.
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Do we have enough authentic local stories?
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Irene Jay Liu, Pulitzer nominated journalist from Singapore now speaks about the critical issues that demand attention of the media. "People need information during these times. Covid-19 is a geopolitical, economic health story. With investigative journalism crossing boundaries now, so does misinformation that does not recognize language," she says.
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Jay Liu agrees with Dixit's take on welcoming collaborative journalism. She asserts "When news organizations collaborate in one voice, the rhetoric of polarized and biased news can be combatted."
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Is biased news influencing people more than authentic news?
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Sashi Kumar, Chairman of the Asian College of Journalism, gives his insights on shifting journalism education online. 
He says "The pandemic has accelerated digital journalism. There is a greater response, and more reflexivity also in terms of the new media branch of journalism."
Sashi Kumar further speaks about the variety of skills taught to student journalists at ACJ, including storytelling, editing and publishing. Students are also trained to multi-task, and are encouraged to be adept with latest technological developments like AR, VR, etc.
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Sashi Kumar claims that the biggest challenge is to implement so much in given time.
He says "Whether we like it or not, social media is now determining the agenda of the media in some form or the other."
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Sashi Kumar then agrees with Anuradha on the prevalent gender disparity in the newsroom. He states "Even though ACJ's student population has been dominated by women for the last two decades, the reality is different in the profession."
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Thank you for joining us on this rather insightful discussion on the future of journalism, with our esteemed panel.
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