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From the books written on Mahatma Gandhi to the movies made on the same; print and electronic media have fairly elaborated on the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi. Yet one of the aspects of his life which remains fairly unexplored by the mainstream media is his career as a journalist. Gandhiji worked as a journalist and edited four well known journals. The Indian Opinion, Young India, Navajivan and the Harijan. He treated newspaper and journalism as a responsibility and not mere communication or profit making business. His newspapers were tools of communication, change and upliftment of the deprived class who writhed against the structures of oppression. Truth, accuracy, fairness and impartiality rooted the basic premise of Satyagrahi journalistic ethics proposed by Gandhi. While media /journalism ethics is a vast subject and still remains debatable, the general approach of this branch is concerned with actions that are morally permissible and actions that are not. It may vary with time, culture, demographics and personal needs/choices and so on. The ethics of journalism have many aspects: law, instructions, professional norms, good manners and politeness guidelines. Yet, credibility is considered to be the key for this profession since inception.

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