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সংবাদমাধ্যমে জেন্ডার-বিষয়ক অঙ্গীকার সনদ (Gender Charter of Commitment for News Media)

This study explores the use and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Bangladeshi newsrooms focusing on the associated policies and practices for ethical and responsible AI usage. It reveals a noticeable disconnect between the potential and the practices of AI adoption in Bangladeshi newsrooms, offering a set of recommendations on how to enhance AI literacy, promote its ethical use, and support sustainable AI integration in Bangladeshi newsrooms. The study employs a mixed method approach, incorporating a voluntary online survey with 53 journalists working in national level news media outlets, a focus group discussion with media managers and five key informant interviews with editors and experts.

AI Adoption in Bangladeshi Newsrooms 2024

A publication on investigative journalism containing world’s great investigations and story behind the story. Edited by famous investigative journalist Mark Lee Hunter, the book will be of great help to the reporters who go for deep investigations. It mentions investigation plan, strategy and procedure followed by the famous investigative journalists. This book is published under UNESCO’s journalism publication series. After huge responses from the readers of the earlier translation of journalist manual on story-based enquiry, Fojo and MRDI initiated to translate this book. We hope investigative journalists will benefit from it. Its copyright is protected by UNESCO. MRDI is responsible for its translation and editing. Iraj Ahmed translated the book, Shibabrata Barman reviewed the script and Partho Protim Das helped in the process.
অনুসন্ধানী সাংবাদিকতার কেসবুক (Investigative Journalism Casebook)
This study looks at the media's coverage of renewable energy and aims to understand how its significance is regarded in the mainstream newsrooms in order to ensure that the media plays an effective role in promoting a green transition. To get a comprehensive assessment of news coverage on renewable energy compared to the broader issues of climate change, environment, and non-renewable energy, it analysed 496 news pieces published over three years from 2020 to 2022 in ten leading media outlets. Out of the items analyzed, it was discovered that just 4% of the coverage focused on renewable energy, with 75% of the coverage coming from newspapers. To improve the caliber of the issue's coverage, it suggests creating a pool of journalists with pertinent experience and engaging news managers.

Media Coverage in Question: Shining Light in Renewables

This study analyses thematically selected news items published in mainstream news media of Bangladesh through a gender-equality and gender-sensitivity lens. It tries to find baseline practices and trends of coverage concerning women and people of non-binary genders. The study scanned contents of selected newspaper, television bulletin and online news portal. It sampled all news items, which featured or were created by female and non-binary genders especially hijra, a transgender and intersex community; or covered their perspectives. A minor proportion was selected for excluding them, even when they were essential stakeholders.

Women and Hijras in Bangladeshi News Media

To understand how gender-equality concerns are integrated into the media-related regulations, policies and self-regulatory frameworks in Bangladesh, MRDI carried out this study on gender equality and media regulation. It tries to find ways that can help increase freedom of expression for the people experiencing inequality because of their gender status, without compromising media freedom and independence guaranteed by Bangladesh constitution. The study is expected to help policy-makers, regulators and media houses formulate norms that will create an enabling environment in the media industry, free from all kind of discrimination.

Gender Equality and Media Regulation Study Bangladesh

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