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Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award 2017: 'Media needs to introspect'

Don't mix news with views, says Prakash Javadekar. Don't lose pulse of people and become irrelevant

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HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar presenting the Business Standard Seema Nazareth Award 2016 to Alnoor Peermohamed in New Delhi. Photo: Dalip Kumar

BS Reporter New Delhi
Prakash Javadekar, Union human resource development minister, on Monday exhorted journalists to not mix news with views. 

“Journalism is a job of passion and excitement. It has to be balanced and fair. News and views have to be separate. Edit page is edit page and news page is news page. Recently, I have seen a trend where each news sentence has a slant,” Javadekar said, while speaking at a function organised to confer the Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Print Journalism 2016.

Javadekar, the Bharatiya Janata Party in-charge of the Assembly elections in Manipur, said election coverage was

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