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The Business of Deception: Unmoderated YouTube Channels and Bangladesh’s Trust Crisis

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh’s information space has undergone a marked transformation with the proliferation of self-styled news channels operating on YouTube, a great many of which function entirely outside any editorial standard, source verification process, or meaningful accountability structure. What was initially heralded as a democratization of media access, one that promised to lower barriers to entry and…

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Journalism in Bangladesh: A Chosen Smart Profession or a Path Driven Only by Passion?

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 editor No Comments

Ask a young graduate in Dhaka why they entered journalism, and the answer rarely mentions salary security or career prestige. It is almost always framed as calling, a desire to speak truth to power, to give voice to the voiceless. That framing captures something real about Bangladeshi journalism, but it also conceals an uncomfortable truth:…

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Commercial Pressure, Political Lobbying, and the Task Facing Bangladesh’s New Information Minister

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

How Private Television Became a Business First Enterprise Bangladesh’s private television sector, opened up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, now includes dozens of channels competing simultaneously for viewers, advertising revenue, and political relevance, as detailed in a recent analysis published by The Oniket Bulletin. That same analysis notes that most of these channels…

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Review of 16 weeks Media and Digital Dissemination Articles in the Oniket Bulletin

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

The Oniket Bulletin has, over the past sixteen weeks, assembled a substantial body of twenty-four articles under its Media, Publishing and Digital Dissemination category, offering what amounts to one of the more ambitious single outlet surveys of Bangladesh’s media policy landscape in recent memory. This report critically evaluates the commissioning choices, thematic coverage, factual depth,…

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Bangladesh’s Printed Literature Market Faces a Reckoning It Can No Longer Delay

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

The purpose of this article is to examine the growing structural challenges facing Bangladesh’s book publishing industry and to assess how its weaknesses increasingly resemble those affecting the country’s newspaper sector. A recent Oniket Bulletin analysis, “The Printed Press at a Crossroad,” described editorial newspapers battling collapsing circulation, vanishing advertising revenue and an eroding sense…

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News Quality, Authenticity, and Bias: Bangladesh’s Private Television Landscape in Global Context

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026 editor 4 Comments

Bangladesh’s private television news industry has expanded dramatically since the sector opened up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Today, dozens of channels compete for viewers, advertising revenue, and political relevance. This growth has broadened access to information and diversified the voices available to viewers, but it has also raised persistent questions about editorial…

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When News Becomes a Political Weapon: Media Propaganda and Democratic Resilience in Pakistan and Bangladesh

July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 editor 1 Comment

“Information is a public good,” UNESCO affirmed in its Windhoek+30 Declaration, declared that access to reliable and independent information is highly indispensable for democracy, sustainable development, and peace. However, in this era of the digital landscape, information has increasingly become a contested political resource rather than a shared public good. The recent political crises in…

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Facebook dark: Bangladesh too?

July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 editor No Comments

The article aims to highlight how a technical failure at a single foreign company, Facebook, exposed Bangladesh’s overreliance on one platform for everyday communication, business, and social connection. It uses the outage as a starting point to raise a bigger policy question about digital sovereignty and infrastructure dependency. The piece describes a Facebook outage that…

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Fearless does not mean Mindless: Mirza Fakhrul on free media in Bangladesh

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 editor No Comments

LGRD Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s remark that “the stronger the media, the stronger the democracy” delivered at a reception for the newly elected executive committee of the Thakurgaon Press Club crystallizes a principle that Bangladesh has long acknowledged in rhetoric but struggled to uphold in practice. His call for journalists to “call things as…

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Beyond Headlines: Why Bangladesh Needs Educational Media that Inspires Knowledge, Pride, and National Identity

July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 editor No Comments

This article examines Bangladeshi media’s limited commitment to educational programming, highlighting why these matters for national development. It identifies lessons from respected public interest media organizations to help create a culture of knowledge, heritage, and scientific awareness. Mass media shapes how citizens understand their country. In Bangladesh, television, newspapers, and digital platforms prioritize politics, crime,…

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