• August 21, 2024
• Media Ethics

Police in Lahore have detained Farhan Asif, a freelance web developer linked to Channel3Now, over his alleged role in spreading misinformation that fueled race-motivated riots in the UK following a stabbing in Southport, where three young girls were killed. Asif is accused of copy-pasting false claims from social media that wrongly identified the 17-year-old British-born suspect as […]

• June 1, 2024
• Governance, Media and Governance, Media Development, Media Ethics

On May 27, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) pledged its support to journalist organizations opposing the recently passed defamation bill by the Punjab Assembly. Representatives from various journalist organizations met with MQM-P chairman Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and other party leaders at the MQM-P’s Bahadurabad office in Karachi. The delegation included leaders from the Council of Pakistan Newspaper […]

• September 25, 2023
• Media Ethics

In chapter seven of The Dark Side of Journalism, which explores the context of impunity familiar to Pakistani journalists from living precariously — and killed casually — in the line of duty since September 11, 2001, there is a quote from a tribal journalist in the former FATA: “Instead of me visiting the field, the […]

• January 3, 2023
• Media Ethics

The Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam Memon said that now a days there was a trend of fake news in the country and false news was spreaded in such a way that it seemed to be true. He said that in a recently published article, false news was spreaded against […]

• December 16, 2022
• Media Ethics, Social Media, Views and Opinion

TODAY we are constantly exposed to information overload. Especially with the development of social media, where the control is weak, people are caught in a surge of news that is questionable whether it is true or not. News can quickly reach the masses and can lead to provocation. However, the Allah Almighty says in the […]

• December 12, 2022
• Media Ethics

The British media has been a role model for journalists of former colonies like South Asia. Following media ethics, impartial treatment of the story, and maintaining objectivity are the main ingredients for a journalist and people like me learned a lot from British media in the past. Alas the basic concept of cross-checking and avoiding […]

• December 6, 2022
• Media Ethics

“It is enough for a man to prove himself a liar when he goes on narrating whatever he hears” (Sahih Muslim) FORMED of inaccurate and misleading information and published or shared in media outlets and social media, fake news can be a dangerous way of obtaining information. This kind of news can be against a […]

• November 27, 2022
• Media Ethics

Islamabad, NOV 25: The standard of journalism in Pakistan is gradually deteriorating as many journalists have become biased parties, listening to one side, and then building and reporting narratives in a distorted way. This way, they are not only failing to report the truth but also creating instability and confusion in the society. These views […]

• November 18, 2022
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD—Daily Jang on Thursday expressed a half-hearted regret for publishing a cartoon seen as offensive by readers, portraying the supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf as donkeys. The cartoon, published on the newspaper’s front page, also showed the party Chairman Imran Khan, using the pejorative term ‘youthia’ for PTI supporters.   In its regret note, the paper […]

• June 14, 2021
• Media Ethics

KARACHI: How to report trauma, not just in adults but the trauma that children go through in an incident was the main topic of discussion during a Zoom meeting organised by the Uks Research Centre on Saturday. Taking the motorway gang-rape reporting as a case study, Uks director said that the issue of ‘trauma’ was […]

• June 7, 2021
• Media Ethics

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Sunday said that strict legislation against fake news is very important. He tweeted that groups, which oppose legislation against fake news and call such actions against freedom of expression, have a dubious state of mind and balance. Newspaper: The News

• April 13, 2021
• Media Ethics

The global pandemic has hit the media industry hard, especially from a business standpoint. Yet the fallout is not uniform. In Gilgit-Baltistan, for example, journalism is still in its infancy. Residents rely on national television channels as a primary news source. Print media lags behind given logistical issues related to distance and cost. Digital media […]

• September 22, 2020
• Media Ethics

KARACHI – A female TV anchor has apologised on-air in her own show personally and on behalf of the channel management for levelling false, derogatory and defamatory allegations against Schon Group. Alveena Agha, a Karachi based journalist, working in a private TV channel,  apologised live to set the record straight after replying officially on September […]

• June 30, 2020
• Freedom of Expression, Media Ethics

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has issued a show cause notice to ARY, Dunya TV, 24 News, Public TV and GTV for airing fake news. According to the authority, the new channels ran news regarding the termination and suspension of Pakistani pilots and engineers working for Kuwait Airways. The channels have been directed to […]