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RONO HILLS, 26 Feb:<\/strong> A two-day online workshop on ‘Citizen journalism: Empowering youth for social change’ was organized by the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), in collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi University’s (RGU) electronics & communication and mass communication department here, from 24-25 February.<\/p>\n Addressing the inaugural function, RGU Vice Chancellor Prof Saket Kushwaha spoke about democracy and the importance of journalism. “In this era of post-truth, the understanding of things becomes quite vague,” he said.<\/p>\n Pro-VC Prof Amitava Mitra dwelt on “empowering the youths with future ready skills and education.”<\/p>\n “The primary objective of journalism is to unearth the truth. Sometimes it is difficult to face the truth, but it’s the only way out to go forward as a society,” he added.<\/p>\n Registrar Dr NT Rikam said that, “with the digital media and social media in particular, anyone with a smartphone can click photos, record videos and put up on the internet and tell a story.<\/p>\n The big question which we need to answer is whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.”<\/p>\n RGU’s Mass Communication Department Head Prof Uttam Kumar Pegu, RGNIYD Professor Vasanthi Rajendran, Dr M Asgahar from RGU’s anthropology department and Dr Maibam Sanju from RGU’s electronics & communication engineering department also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RONO HILLS, 26 Feb: A two-day online workshop on ‘Citizen journalism: Empowering youth for social change’ was organized by the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), in collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi University’s (RGU) electronics & communication and mass communication department here, from 24-25 February. Addressing the inaugural function, RGU Vice Chancellor Prof Saket […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}