Media conference begins on Monday

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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan volition formally inaugurate the four-day International Media Festival of Kerala (IMFK) astatine Tagore Theatre present connected Tuesday.

The taxable of the conference, organised by the Kerala Media Academy, is ‘Media for information and peace.’ More than a 1000 mediapersons and media students from Kerala and extracurricular volition enactment successful the conference.

On Monday, Minister for Finance K.N. Balagopal and Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan volition unneurotic inaugurate a Palestine solidarity league by flying a kite with the colours of Palestine emblem astatine Tagore Theatre astatine 5.30 p.m. Ambassador of Palestine to India Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh volition beryllium the main guest.

At the inaugural connected Tuesday, writer from Burkina Faso Mariam Ouedraogo volition person the grant for the ‘Mediaperson of the twelvemonth award.’ Ms. Ouedraogo has reported connected the intersexual unit against women and children successful the aftermath of coups successful Burkina Faso.

Journalists Karan Thapar, Ravish Kumar, and Rajdeep Sardesai who won the grant for Indian mediapersons successful 2022, 2023, and 2024 volition besides person awards from the Chief Minister. The grant comprises a purse of ₹1 lakh each, statuette, and citation, Kerala Media Academy chairperson R.S, Babu said.

An array of mediapersons, including Sashi Kumar, Rana Ayyub, Tongam Rina, Pushpa Rokde, Pratik Sinha, and Mohammed Zubair volition instrumentality portion successful the conference.

Panel discussions, interactions, sharing of experiences, AI workshops, quiz are immoderate of the events being held arsenic portion of the conference.

The archetypal V.P. Ramachandran Memorial Award volition beryllium presented to writer Anasudhin Azeez from the U.K.

Two multimedia-photo expos volition beryllium held arsenic portion of the conference. Mr. Pratik Sinha and Mr. Mohammed Zubair volition instrumentality a people connected preventing fake news.

Published - September 27, 2025 10:13 p.m. IST

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