 "Seema Nazareth")
With instances of fake news drastically going up, and many of them leading to incidents of violence and even deaths, journalists need to remain sceptical of ‘facts’ made available to them by officials, and must continue to cross-check them, Chancellor of Ashoka University Rudrangshu Mukherjee said on Tuesday.
“Fake news is proliferating in the air and especially the print media. It is the need of the hour for journalists to cross-check available facts and reports,” Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Chancellor of Ashoka University, said at a function organised to confer the Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Print Journalism 2018.
A
