Pinning hopes on the new

বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম
Published : 23 Oct 2013, 12:00 PM
Updated : 9 Jan 2014, 12:41 PM

Pinning hopes on the new
In journalism for four and a half decades, Amanullah Kabir has been Managing Director and Chief Editor of the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), founding Editor of the vernacular Amar Desh and founding               Executive Editor of The Independent newspaper. A         popular activist who led the national union of journalists for long, Kabir is now Senior Editor at bdnews24.com. When he looks back at his long career, he tends to compare his glory days in the 1970s through the 1990s to the Internet age that is today. “The young generation of journalists has a history before them to take pride in,” he says, “as their predecessors unwarily contributed, even at the cost of their blood, to the Language Movement, the Liberation War of 1971, to democracy and press freedom that they are enjoying today. “Journalism is a profession always accompanied by risks and hazards. Despite that I must say, like many others of my age group, I am fortunate to come across many rare but great occasions … which the new generation will have to learn from history. “I believe the present generation, equipped with                information technology, is capable enough of leaving behind a new history for their successors.”