BS-Seema Nazareth Award 2019: Shun 'easy' journalism, says Ravish Kumar

'This is an age where we are not information seekers, we are narrative seekers', said Kumar

In this age of “deepfake” technology and TikTok style speed news, journalism is facing a crisis both at the institutional as well as individual levels, Ravish Kumar, senior journalist and recipient of the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay award, said on Friday. Cautioning against easy journalism, he said it was up to the media to choose between a pond and a sea.

“This is an age where we are not information seekers, we are narrative seekers,” Kumar said at a function organised to present the Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Print Journalism 2019. 

He said while media institutions, especially television