Dhaka, Dec 20 — The editor-in-chief of bdnews24.com has launched call for guidelines to set the standards for public discourse on social media alongside regulating news media, who are perceived to be frequently testing the limits.
"Speech must be responsible to be free. There is a social and cultural necessity for freedom of responsible speech," Toufique Imrose Khalidi said at a programme to celebrate the Internet newspaper's fifth anniversary.
"(But) there has to be some discipline in the way the state manages the media. The decision makers must be guided by reason," he added at the Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday evening.
Besides presenting bdnews24.com's current activities and future plans, he also spoke about crisis and possibilities of presenting news on the Internet.
Policymakers in the government, judges, lawyers, politicians, businessmen, entrepreneurs, poets, sportsmen, top army officers, cultural activists — leading personalities from the entire spectrum of society attended the programme.
Organiers say it is "a fantastic opportunity" to reflect on bdnews24.com's role as a pioneer and innovator.
It offers a range of real-time news coverage for online readers replete with critical information to pick and click; it gathers and delivers news, based on accuracy and consistency on the web 24 hours, with the highest standards of professionalism, integrity and ethical journalism.
bdnews24.com says their newsroom never sleeps.