Mangaluru : Bengaluru Press Club president Sadashiv Shenoy, Inaugurated the ‘Press Day’ organised by Patrika Bhavan Trust, Mangaluru here at press club on Saturday, July 1.

Speaking after the Inauguration the media be an power of society, Challenges are natural for a journalist, he should face it. Shenoy said.

The recent incident of legislature exercising suzerain power over media is very evident of the fact that journalism is still alive and kicking.

Shenoy, who hails from Belthangady in the district, was also happy to note that the day coincides with Doctor’s Day, with the journalists having enormous responsibilities to treat the ills of the society.

A team of artists, led by artist and environmentalist Dinesh Holla, created a collage to mark the day at an exhibition organised on the second floor of Patrika Bhavan.

Journalist Gopalakrishna Kuntani said that new age media has been growing fast and steady breaking the mould of breaking news.

Speaking on ‘New Age Media’ at Press Day programme at Mangaluru Press Club, Kuntani referred to the tweets dispatching news in a jiffy, overtaking ‘breaking news’, as electronic media refer to recent developments. No sooner a development takes place in the society, pat it will be available either on Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook or even Instagram that form social networking sites also the new age media. They are even proving effective with the moxie of making or breaking the governments, he underlined.

Such is the pervading influence of new age media that, traditional media houses, mainly print media, have been incorporating technology to provide online and e-paper facilities.

The question over the impact of new media on traditional ways of dissemination of news with newspapers is still debated, but a similar question was mooted during the foray of electronic media. One cannot ignore that all types of media have surrendered to new age media, a paradigm shift in the last few decades, when taking newspapers to readers was an arduous task. There were instances of dailies reaching villages at late evening hours due to lack of adequate transportation facilities, he recalled.

Sadashiva Shenoy, President of State Journalists Association, was honored by the Journalists’ Association on the occasion.

Former President of the journalists’ Association PB Harish Rai compered the program. Journalist Pushparaj proposed vote of thanks.

Senior journalist Manohar Prasad, Working Journalist Union President Jaganath Shetty Bala, Secretary Srinivasa Indaje and others were present.