Ekushey Padak winning journalist Reazuddin Ahmed no more
Veteran journalist Reazuddin Ahmed passed away at the ICU of United Hospital in Dhaka at 1:30 pm today. He was 77.
He was suffering from Covid-19, family sources said.
Reazuddin, the former editor of The Financial Express and News Today, was admitted to the hospital on December 16.
He received the Ekushey Padak in 1993 for his contribution to journalism.
Riazuddin was one of the key players in the movement for the rights of journalists in Bangladesh. He was also at the forefront of the anti-authoritarian movement.
He was nominated as a member of the Bangladesh Press Council on December 21 this year.
He was a four-time elected president of the Jatiya Press Club. He had also served as the secretary of the undivided Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the president of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ).
Riazuddin Ahmed was born in 1945 in Narandi village of Narsingdi's Manohardi upazila. He passed MA in Economics from Dhaka University in 1967 and LLB in 1972.
After teaching for a brief period, he joined Pakistan Observer in 1968. In 1970 he became a member of the executive council of the then East Pakistan Journalists Union.
Riazuddin left Pakistan Observer on March 25, 1971, and assisted in the War of Liberation. After the independence, he rejoined the Observer. He worked there until November 1990.
Books "Shotter Sondhane Protidin", "Arobbo Rajani" and "Paroshya Rajani" were written by the veteran journalist.
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