• May 15, 2013
• Broadcasting, Media and Society, Media Ethics, Print Media, Television

I admit I was wrong in my pre-poll projections. Like most of my colleagues in the media, I had expected the PPP to get a good drubbing in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). But very few of us had expected it to be wiped out almost completely from these two provinces. On the other hand, none [...]

• May 12, 2013
• Broadcasting, Media and Governance, Media and Society, Television

ISLAMABAD: Eulogising the role of the media in making the general election a success, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim on Saturday gave full marks to the Jang Group and The News. Talking to media persons here on Saturday, the CEC mentioned the role of the media in general and that of [...]

• May 12, 2013
• Media and Society, New Media, Social Media

Karachi: Live updates on the general elections appearing on popular social networking websites are an indication of how smartphones and the rising power of social media have provided everyone with a voice. By 5pm Saturday, the hashtag #NA250 was one of the top trends in the country on Twitter. The constituency saw a massive turnout [...]

• May 10, 2013
• Broadcasting, Front Page, Media and Society, Print Media, Radio, Television

Mishal Pakistan launches the Credibility Lab, an initiative to create new frameworks and methodologies to measure current trends and indices on Media Ethics, Journalism Standards, Media Credibility and Rankings to be measured on international benchmarks. The Six Pillars of Media Credibility Index The Credibility Lab among other areas will be working on models to improve [...]

• April 1, 2013
• Media and Society

Karachi: The new office-bearers of the KU Journalism Alumni Association were elected on Sunday. Mehmood Farooqi and Abid Hussain were elected as the president and the general secretary respectively. The elections were held at the Karachi Press Club. Khalida Siddiqui and Omer Ansari were elected as vice presidents, Dr Fatima Hassan as the joint secretary [...]

• April 1, 2013
• Media and Society

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar Press Club here on Sunday arranged “Basant” festival for journalists and their families. A large number of journalists and their family participated in the festival. Later, a colourful ceremony was organised in which journalists, and their family members were given gifts. PPP provincial leader, Nighat Yaseem Orkazai, Peshawar Press Club, President Nasir [...]

• April 1, 2013
• Media and Society, Miscellaneous News

The Election Commission of Pakistan is likely to finalise a code of conduct for the media covering the upcoming general election 2013 to ensure dissemination of credible and unbiased news. An ECP official told APP that after thorough consultation with the representatives of media organisations, the code of conduct for media has got its final [...]

• March 31, 2013
• Media and Society

Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Speakers shed light on the invaluable contributions of Dawn columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee to humanity at a memorial held in his honour in the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation’s Agha Hassan Abedi auditorium on Saturday evening. Dr Adibul Hassan Rizvi gave a presentation on Mr Cowasjee’s achievements and began by saying that [...]

• February 17, 2013
• Media and Society

Karachi: A culture of impunity is increasing in the country to such an extent that those involved in cases of missing persons are sure that they can even get away with murder, said celebrated novelist and journalist Mohammed Hanif on Saturday. He expressed these views during the launch of his book ‘The Baloch who is [...]