Category: Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

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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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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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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Overview Bangladesh carries a literary heritage of remarkable depth. From the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore to the novels of Humayun Ahmed, the country has long nurtured a reading culture shaped by language, emotion, and a fierce sense of identity. That culture, however, has struggled to find its footing in the digital age. Despite a young,…

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Bangladesh operates one of the most complex and contested media environments in South Asia. Boasting more than 543 daily newspapers, dozens of television channels, and a rapidly expanding digital press, the country’s media sector is vast in scale but persistently fragile in its ethical grounding. Analyzing how codes of conduct and journalism ethics have evolved…

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Bangladesh is currently facing a critical misinformation crisis that threatens the core of its social stability. Data from fact-checking organizations reveals a worrying trend: in 2025 alone, there was a 30 percent spike in false or misleading content compared to the previous year. This digital epidemic is highly targeted and dangerous. Nearly two out of…

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