Media

Mostafa Kamal Majumder While improving the content of The New Nation, I simultaneously initiated measures to improve the getup and makeup of the paper. I noticed that the computer section was deciding how the getup should be like on a page to page basis. To accommodate headlines one simple option they had was to increase or deduce font size to ... Read More »

Khulna, July 10 – Police arrested a man from Mongla Port residential area of Khulna district on Thursday night allegedly for making derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on social networking site Facebook. Read More »

Dhaka, July 09 – The authorities of Denim Processing Plant Lt on Thursday allegedly assaulted two journalists for reporting the rape of a garment worker in Belasahar area of Chandina Upazila. The journalists were identified as Md Abdul Baten and Md Jakir Hossain, local correspondents of Daily Jugantor and Jaijaidin. Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder Political violence in Bangladesh is an old phenomenon. I came face to face with a very destructive such violence on 23 May 1980 when a public meeting of Khondaker Mushtaq Ahmad came under a bomb attack in front of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque. The largely attended meeting was organized at the end of a series of ... Read More »

YouTube on Monday shut down six far-right channels for violating rules against “supremacist” content, booting videos by David Duke, Stefan Molyneux and Richard Spencer. Read More »

The Rajshahi University authorities suspended Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department assistant professor Kazi Jahidur Rahman after his arrest on charge of making derogatory remarks about late Awami League leader Muhammad Nasim on Facebook. Read More »

Facebook said Friday it would ban a “wider category of hateful content” in ads as the embattled social media giant moved to respond to growing protests over its handling of inflammatory posts. Read More »

Rakuten Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging apps for free and secure communication, has cut all business ties with social media giant Facebook aiming to protect its one billion users. Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder As The New Nation became more or less self-reliant and I could respond to demands of working journalists to improve their working conditions in the paper with a mission to make it sustainable I got a phone call one day from President Iajuddin Ahmed to join him over a cup of tea, several months after the Army-backed ... Read More »

Mashuk Chowdhury, a renowned poet and Chief News Editor of Bangladesh Pratidin, died of pneumonia at a hospital in Dhaka early Wednesday. Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder The Old Sangsad Bhaban at Nakhalpara was where I started my Parliament reporting. My seniors most of the time used to engage me to cover the question hour held at the start of sittings every day. The 1979 Parliament is sometimes referred to have had the richest composition with representation from Bangladesh’s political parties. The BNP had ... Read More »

Dhaka, June 21 – Veteran journalist Abed Khan has been diagnosed with Covid-19, along with all the members of his household – including family and domestic help. Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder The New Nation was at a high trajectory in respect of its circulation through the Internet. But at least 14 years of soft copies of the paper were lost as the website from where it was available to readers from all over the world was abruptly stopped twice first due to family feud in the later part ... Read More »

Police arrested a teacher of Rajshahi University (RU) on charge of making derogatory remarks about late Awami League leader Muhammad Nasim in a Facebook post early Thursday. Read More »

Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) has expressed grave concern over the summoning of at least 10 journalists by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) after reports on a senior police officer’s immoral activities were published. Read More »

Increasing numbers of readers are paying for online news around the world even if the level of trust in the media in general remains very low, according to a report published Tuesday. Read More »

Jatiya Press Club on Tuesday launched 24hours ambulance service for its members during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More »

Facebook on Monday rejected calls from the Australian government and news companies that it share advertising revenue with the media, suggesting it would rather cut news content from its platform.The US tech giant said in a submission to Australia’s competition watchdog that news represents a “very small fraction” of the content in an average user’s news feed. Read More »

Police arrested a teacher of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur for ‘derogatory’ facebook post on ex- health minister and Awami League leader Mohammed Nasim, who passed away on Saturday.The arrestee is Sirajum Munira, a lecturer of Bangla Department of the university. Read More »

M Zahidul Haque During the on-going corona lockdown, Facebook is serving as a solace to the locked-down people passing their time in some creative activities and in keeping communication with friends, relatives and others. Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder I began attempting scoop news items apart from doing event-based stories and started attracting more attention of seniors and gradually made my place secure in The Bangladesh Times. One such report was on the worsening teacher-student relations in the University of Dhaka. The problem owed its origin to a rapid increase in the number of students after ... Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder The proprietors of The New Nation did not ask me to look after the financial management of the paper. Yet I felt the burden because the journalists and general employees readily find the editor to tell of their sufferings due to irregular payment of salary and benefits. I thought why not try to lift the economic base ... Read More »

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg promised to review the social network’s policies that led to its decision to not moderate controversial messages posted by US President Donald Trump. Read More »

By Samira Sadeque Governments have made the media “a scapegoat” across Asia, targeting journalists who are simply reporting on the failures or shortcomings of their leadership during the coronavirus pandemic, press freedom experts have warned. Read More »

Facebook has removed nearly 200 social media accounts linked to white supremacy groups that planned to encourage members to attend protests over police killings of black people — in some cases with weapons, company officials said Friday. Read More »

Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, on Thursday demanded the government to announce risk allowance for journalists infected with coronavirus and the family members of those who died of COVID-19. Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder It was a matter of sheer luck that I joined The Bangladesh Times at the start of my career in journalism. The paper was the most dynamic among four English dailies of Dhaka City at that time and was full of luminaries of English journalism in Bangladesh. The paper also had a solid foundation. Renowned editor of ... Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder After taking over as editor of The New Nation in May I spent some tough months for a variety of reasons. The proprietor used to subsidise the paper with his earnings from the Daily Ittefaq. The paper had about 100 journalists and general employees. The monthly salary bill was around Taka four hundred thousand which the paper ... Read More »

Mostafa Kamal Majumder If anybody asks me if I have come to the profession of journalism by conscious choice, my answer will be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Yes, because after coming to this profession I have really made no serious effort to change to another. No, because had I not come to journalism during my student life it would have ... Read More »

President Donald Trump escalated his war on Twitter and other social media companies Thursday, signing an executive order challenging the lawsuit protections that have served as a bedrock for unfettered speech on the internet. Read More »