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Stories waiting to be told by Journalists

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Covering Goa since 1963 Stories waiting to be told By   NT Desk  - September 6, 2020 Why don’t journalists tell their stories, beyond the news they report on? One would suspect that they would have many stories waiting to be told Frederick Noronha In pandemic times, many of us have been trapped for longer periods at home. So, reading and reminiscing comes almost naturally. Some don’t like too much of this happening online. But, to me, going down memory lane is also a way of understanding our recent history. Some journalist colleagues have been giving us a ringside view to understanding people and events, issues and trends within a Goa of recent times. For instance, Camil Parkhe, a journalist who worked in The Navhind Times in the 1980s and early 1990s, has been doing a series of interesting write-ups on his days here via Facebook. His byline would surely be familiar to senior readers of this journal. Of course, in those times, it was far tougher for reporters to be bestowed by...

My Trade unionism in newspaper industry in Goa, India, Aurangabad and Pune

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My Trade unionism in newspaper industry in Goa, India, Aurangabad and Pune I have fought for implementation of the Palekar Wage award for journalists and other newspaper employees. In 1987, I had also appeared before the 11 member Bachchwat Wage Commission to argue for better pay scales and facilities for newspaper employees in the country. As General Secretary of the Goa Union of Journalists (GUJ ), I was instrumental in absorption of a large number of surplus employees post computerisation or automation in The Navhind Times, Panjim, where I worked. When daily Gomantak, then owned by Chougules, summarily retrenched 19 surplus newspaper employees in 1987, I took up the matter with the Labour Commissioner and succeeded in giving better financial package to the retrenched workers. I have therefore very strong reasons to be appalled to see that hundreds of journalists and others are sacked, thrown to the wind, following closure of Sakal Times, Gomantak Times ...