NEW DELHI: Nikhil Chakravartty, said Journalists should be cautious that investigative journalism: does not decline into ‘invention journalism’.
“Investigative journalists should be careful of the pitfalls that can befall them, it is when thieves fall out that they will pass on information. But at the same time a reporter should be careful that it is not a planted story, Chakravartty Said while speaking on “confessions of a reporter”.
He said journalists should not view themselves as makers of destiny, but as disseminators of in years as they would develop into potential sources of information in the years to come, he said,
Article extracted from this publication >> October 5, 1990