An integrated state-of-the-art newsroom was inaugurated at the Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) in Taramani on Wednesday. The facility will be used to impart hands-on training to journalism students across platforms including television, radio, print and online.
Speaking after inaugurating the newsroom, N. Ram, Chairman, Kasturi and Sons Ltd., called for striking the right balance between traditional values of journalism and technology. He said that while the integrated newsroom was a way of engaging people and being more creative, it needs to be seen as to what it does in an actual news environment. He said writing, research and fact-checking were still important in journalism.
Sashi Kumar, Chairman, Asian College of Journalism, said the integrated newsroom aims to evolve a journalism of technological convergence and multimedia storytelling without compromising on its cardinal principles and core values of journalism.
