Beacon- 2022 (The Annual Ethics Conference) Media-ting Ethics
Beacon 2022 – the Annual Ethics Conference of LIBA and the Mother Teresa Award for Corporate Citizenship 2020-21 was held on 12th March 2022 at 4:30 p.m. at the Xavier Britto Auditorium. The theme for Beacon 2022 was Media–ting Ethics, designed with an intent to reflect on how this powerful system of media mediates ethics and stays responsible. Rev. Fr. Joe Arun, SJ, Director – LIBA delivered the welcome address and the concept note for the conference. Rev. Fr. Francis Xavier, SJ, Rector – Loyola College Institutions oriented the students on the topic. Mr. K.T. Jaganathan, the Senior Financial Journalist, stated that the media had undergone an unimaginable metamorphosis and there was constant stress over one-upmanship. Mr. N. Umasankar, Advocate, Madras High Court, emphasized that ethics lies not only in portraying the information as it is, but sometimes it also lay in withholding confidential data. Mr. L. Nitin Chordia, Co-Founder of Cocoatrait, elaborated that bringing ethics into the core of business would result in profits eventually. The event was jointly organized by the Centre for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance (CBEG) and Prof. C.K. Prahalad’s Centre for Emerging India (CKPC) of LIBA.