‘Young journalists can play a key role in nation building’

Islamabad
The Islamians Media Society of the Department of Media and Communication Studies of the International Islamic University Islamabad organised a seminar on ‘the role of young journalists in current scenario’ in which renowned journalists participated.
The event was held at Faisal Masjid campus of the university while an enormous gathering of students of media studies attended the seminar. Dr. Nabi Bux Jumani, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences and senior teachers of department were also present on the occasion.
Eminent journalists including Salim Safi, Ahmed Qureshi, Waqas Rafique, Salim Sethi and Mohsin Raza Khan shared experiences regarding the field of journalism and elaborated do’s and don’ts of profession. Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Head DMCS also expressed his views during a welcome address.
He urged upon the students of the Department who are aspiring to become media professionals in near future to own their own media using new information and communication technologies specially focused on media. “There is a huge scope of innovative ideas and creativity in the social media set ups, very lucrative opportunities to our youth” he furthered. Senior journalists emphasized that youth is the image of any nation and young journalists can play a key role in nation building. They added that positive role can promote constructive and positive journalism. They opined that it’s a good omen that young minds are taking interest in media and adopting true practices of this profession. During the seminar, senior journalists focused that new generation must come forward and play positive role in resolution of the problems being faced by our country. The panel of senior journalists congratulated DMCS of University for conducting media seminar for young journalists.
They said that spreading information without authentication is not a positive feature of journalism. Questions and answers session was also held in which media students actively participated by raising various issues related to profession of journalism. Professor Dr. Nabi Bux Jumani, Dean of the Faculty appreciated efforts of Media Department of the University for taking this initiative which would help in improving standards of journalism among the media students. In the end, University Crests were also presented to special guests.