Challenges of a Rural Journalist

 Challenges of a Rural Journalist

The term ‘Rural Journalism’ is basically meant to define journalism that addresses issues in the rural pockets of India. These issues include coverage of rural news that deals with farmers, tribals, the economically backward in rural areas, agrarian issues both good and those that need to be addressed, agrarian crisis, socio-economic inequalities that exist in rural India, issues that deal with industrialisation that deprives people of their land and their basic rights in the rural pockets, etc,. Rural reports by journalists can contribute massively to development of Indian rural areas and can lead to Governments taking notice of the situation and reaching out with helps to these pockets.

Challenges that rural journalists face: -

-          Rural journalists are paid very less and don’t get additional expenses which he or she spent from their own pocket.

-          Rural journalists avoid taking risk to do any exclusive story due to lake of security.

-          Journalists get regular threats from the powerful groups of the villages which force them to not to cultivate any story related to the suppression or rural corruption.

-          Lake of network connectivity in the rural area.

-          Lake of transportation is the main problem in the remote areas

-          Rural journalists don’t get extra funds for fuel or transportation.

-          Cast based group pressurize the journalists to not to publish the story of any particular cast.

 

 

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