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Journalists trained to remain safe in hostile environment

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Karachi: How to remain safe while covering incidents in hostile situations, including acts of terrorism, explosions, firefights between law enforcers and terrorists, attacks on civilian or military installations or a hostage situation was the theme of an orientation training programme for journalists held at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Centre Razzaqabad on Tuesday. […]


Challenges to media despite its phenomenal growth highlighted

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Though mass media was flourishing in Pakistan the country was still among most unsafe states for journalists to work in. Denmark’s Ambassador to Pakistan Jesper Mollar Sorensen made these remarks while presiding over the inaugural session of the 2nd ‘Transforming Youth Media Summit’ on Saturday. The envoy said that some 110 journalists had lost their […]


Jang Group, Geo journalists get four ILO awards

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ISLAMABAD: The journalists of Geo and the Jang Group have won all the four awards of the responsible, gender-based equitable reporting by the subordinate organisation of the UN, the International Labour Organisation (ILO).A ceremony for gender-based equitable reporting awards was organised by the ILO with reference to the print and electronic media here on Monday. […]


C Square, RapidCompute to launch first multi-channel Contact Centre on Cloud

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C Square Consulting and RapidCompute, a division of Cybernet, joined hands to launch Pakistan’s first multi-channel cloud-based contact centre. The partnership between C Square Consulting and RapidCompute will bring state-of-the-art technology to the country as the Genesys Cloud contact centre service. Genesys is the global multi-channel customer experience and contact centre solution leader. Bringing this […]


High time to reorient editorial approach of media

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LAHORE: The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) ended with spreading literary freshness among the literature lovers; in true spirit bring diversity of knowledge, full of colours and sense of festivity to Lahore. Media experts, journalists and speakers at a session on ‘Future of TV news: Journalism or Mirch Masala?’ said that TV news channels with driving […]


PPF Training Workshop For Journalists

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The world focus journalists safety in Pakistan. Islamabad, January 14, 2015; Since Pakistan has become the most dangerous country for journalists, the whole world is focusing it in regards of safety. There are more resources but the stakeholders are on backseat. Press clubs and unions should assess their responsibilities and present their demands to the […]


PPF Training Workshop For Journalists

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KARACHI, January 10, 2015: The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in collaboration with Free Press Unlimited is holding a 3-day residential training workshop, from 14th till 16th January, for journalists, in Islamabad. The workshop titled as “Safety and Security Training workshop for Journalists”, will bring together more than 25 journalists from more than 10 districts of […]


Pakistani trauma centre to give psychotherapy to journalists

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PESHAWAR: Reporting on violence and conflict in the restive Mohmand Agency left a lasting impact on Mureeb Khan. “Continuous witnessing of the mutilated bodies of bombing victims, the destruction caused by catastrophic explosions, armed clashes between local peace committee members and the Taliban and death threats from militants to newsmen working in the region severely […]


Coverage of terrorism acts can give journalists mental stress

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PESHAWAR: The journalists, who cover acts of terrorism, can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, say experts. Addressing the launching ceremony of Competence and Trauma Centre for Journalists here on Monday, Irum Irshad, the chairperson of psychology department, University of Peshawar, said that it was revealed during a recent orientation session that journalists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]


Journalists covering terror incidents in KP to undergo psychotherapy

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PESHAWAR: Journalists and academia have agreed to jointly identify the traumatic conditions of media persons working in the war zones and work out the modalities to address these issues in the Competence and Trauma Centre for Journalists (CTCJ), to be inaugurated at the University of Peshawar shortly. The Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and Khyber Union […]


TV ratings provider launches new service

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KARACHI: A national TV ratings provider has launc­hed a new service in 20 cities covering over 1,000 households across the country. The service launched by Media­logic Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd at a ceremony in Karachi utilises modern technology from Kantar Media of the UK. Medialogic and Kantar Media had announced a technology partnership last year whereby […]


Award winner cites ‘unsung heroes’ in Pakistan press

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Washington: The Pakistani journalist honored for courageous reporting on Thursday spoke out against “brutality” against reporters in her country as she expressed hope for greater freedom for the news media. Asma Shirazi, Pakistan’s first female war correspondent and host of popular TV talk shows, made the comments as she accepted the 2014 Peter Mackler Award […]


Towards PFUJ unity

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THE moves to unite the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists after a split that has persisted for an agonising 37 years deserve to be welcomed. Attended by some of the country’s most senior journalists, Saturday’s meeting in Islamabad could turn out to be seminal if the three groups sink their differences and work towards giving […]


A tribute to silent media figures of Pakistan

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Pakistan’s silent yet pioneering media figures were paid glowing tributes by students, faculty and media at a seminar organised by PR and media students amid the guidance of Parvez Jamil, Faculty Adviser, Media Management Program, Institute of Business Management. Gracing the occasion was Shahida Kazi, quietly yet vitally, the first English language female reporter at […]