ROLE OF MEDIA

DURING COVID-19
AHM Bazlur Rahman | CEO |
Bangladesh NGOs Network for
Radio & Communication
The challenges of covering COVID-19
Journalists across the country face unprecedented challenges to
report the COVID-19 with Accurately, Balance, Fairness & Safely.

• Safety while reporting the story

• Verification of facts & Check again
• Content production
• Combating fake news with Social Media

The challenge for journalists is ensuring their stories are based on

truth, not opinions & science, not speculation.
The Role of Media
More Focus of affected communities through an equity lens for
adapting/coping/surviving with the new normal situation

Focus on enhanced capabilities of Journalists for exercising new normal

and building resilience

Further focus of accelerate of ICT applications for benefitting people in all

aspects of life

Revisit about public access to reliable and timely information through

media for countering infodemic and keeping lives & livelihood easy
Need: Further Focus
- Develop Media Guideline about COVID-19 Covering

- Financial Protection and Technical Cooperation for

journalism
- Pandemic-related reporting skills / Emphasis on Mental
health and wellbeing
- Providing Content Production support to the Media about
COVID-19
- Vaccine Education
 AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)

Policy Research Fellow

Shaping the Future of Media, Information & Culture
in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution(4th IR)

ceo@bnnrc.net | bnnrcbd@gmail.com | http://www.bnnrc.net