The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Press Council Chairman Justice Kazi Ebadul Huq yesterday called for enhancing standard of journalism by upholding the code of ethics to serve the people.

Addressing a training workshop organised by the council at the seminar room of Press Institute of Bangladesh, he advised journalists to keep themselves abreast of the developments taking place in countries where the press is most free and yet most responsible.

Some 24 Journalists from across the country attended the workshop titled 'Code of Conduct of Journalists'. The New Nation Editor Mostafa Kamal Majumder moderated the session while senior sub editor of Daily Ittefaq Abbas Uddin Afsari and senior trainer of Press Institute of Bangladesh M Oliur Rahman were guest speakers.

Huq said newspaper owners sometimes sack journalists illegally without paying their dues and sometimes the owners dismiss journalists without prior notice.

He said rights of journalists have been protected with by laws. But those should be more effective, he opined.

The Press Council Chairman advised the participants to be more industrious to prove their efficiency and study hard to increase their knowledge.

"All of us are fighting to build our country. Newsmen have the highest scope to contribute for building a golden Bangladesh," Huq noted.