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The government, newspaper owners
and journalists should sit together to form a new Wage Award which should
be implemented in letter and spirit.
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A service structure should be
devised for both urban as well as rural journalists, which should be in
the best interest of newspaper owners also.
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It should be made mandatory
for all aspiring journalists to be at least journalism graduates or adequately
trained otherwise.
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Government advertisements to
newspapers should be conditioned with the award of the Wage Award to its
employees.
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A reasonable minimum salary
limit should be fixed for both urban and rural journalists in the new Wage
Award.
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Journalists should organize
themselves and form forums on a self-help basis to ensure professional
training and legal advisory service to newsmen.
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These forums should arrange
foreign tours for local journalists in collaboration with international
organizations to keep them alive to developments in their field.
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These forums should also set
up unemployment funds from their own resources for the financial assistance
of voluntary or low-paid journalists.
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These forums should work together
and prepare a universal code of ethics.
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Keeping in line with modern
trends, these journalist forums should make arrangements for the health
insurance of their members.
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Banks should be asked
to sanction soft-term loans to journalists.
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