(1888PressRelease)
March 22, 2009 - Hardeep Singh Chandpuri one of the leading radio professionals of India and CEO-Founder of the famous Academy of Broadcasting participated in a panel discussion on the theme, “Me, Media and Masses’’ during Media Fest - Soch 2009 organised by the School of Communication Studies of the Panjab University, Chandigarh.
This annual festival has evolved over the years and helps bring practising media professionals and students onto the same platform wherein they can interact and get insight into the working and challenges of working in a media organisation.
This year besides Hardeep Singh Chandpuri, some other distinguished members of the media fraternity were also on the panel like Mr. Amar Chandel, Associate Editor of The Tribune, Mr. Arun Johar, Joint Director Information & Public Relations, Govt. of Haryana and Mr. Jyoti Kamal, Chief of Bureau, Network 18.
Hardeep Chandpuri said that the medium of radio was not alien to India, with AIR being a pioneer, but it’s potential had not been harnessed. “Radio like other mass media has the ability to move the masses. The radio landscape is now being altered for the best, with new entrants coming in and it is only a matter of time, when radio channels will be involved in the dissemination of news too.”
The school’s faculty member Sanjay Wadwalkar introduced the topic. Resident editor of a Hindi daily Prabhat Singh was Chief Guest of the valedictory function. He said values and ethics were relative and differed with each person’s perspective.
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