Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Wednesday urged the media to play its due and pivotal role in removing misunderstandings and build an atmosphere of peace and friendship among the countries in the region. Addressing first ever South Asia Media Summit organised by All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) here Wednesday, the Prime Minister said the region […]
Peace activists, poets, writers, journalists and civil society members on Tuesday underlined the need to take measures to ensure lasting peace between India and Pakistan. One of the methods to achieve this objective was people to people contact, they stressed. They were speaking at Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) Peace Star Award distribution […]
Role of media in problem solving to be highlighted; speakers to point out different aspects of creative writing; event being organised by APNS ISLAMABAD: The two-day South Asian Media Summit will be held at the Pak-China Friendship Building here on Wednesday (today).The summit has been organized by the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS). The summit […]
United States Ambassador in Pakistan Richard Olson has said that the US government strongly supports a vibrant and independent media in Pakistan to provide factual information to the people for holding their government accountable. “I want to make it very clear that the US government strongly support your efforts to provide the people of Pakistan […]
Karachi: The Uks Research Centre and the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) have invited entries for the first-ever Uks-APNS media awards exclusively for women journalists in Pakistan. The Women in Media Awards 2013 aim to generate better awareness and understanding of the fact that positive media content can and does actually bring about positive change […]
Karachi: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) on Saturday announced the categories for the 22nd APNS Journalist Awards, and requested reporters, photographers and cartoonists of member publications to submit their entries for any one of the categories. In a statement, APNS Secretary General Masood Hamid said the editors and chief executives of member publications could […]
Due to some recent unavoidable circumstances in the country, it is the decision of the SAMS council and APNS Management to postpone the SAMS Conference to be held in Islamabad on the 15th and 16th of January 2013. The new dates will announced soon. This was not an easy decision and it is with great […]
KARACHI: The annual elections of Karachi Press Club (KPC) will be held at its premises on December 29. This was announced by the Chairman of the Election Committee, Prof Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan, on Friday. He said that there are two panels- the Green Panel headed by GM Jamali and The Democrats led by Muhammad […]
PESHAWAR: Senior journalist Ihtesham Toru of daily Jang has been adjudged as the best feature writer on flood damage.Ihtisham received his award from Federal Minister for Information and Media Development Qamar Zaman Kaira during the award-giving ceremony organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Jang Group at National Press Club Islamabad on Wednesday. […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The government is planning to monitor and notify official ratings (viewership) of private television channels and regulate government advertisements for them accordingly. Under the plan, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has approved formation of the Department of Electronic Media (Dem) in the ministry of information to specifically deal with the […]
By: G. ALI SIAL Karachi: THIS is apropos of the letter “Violent movies: Pemra’s role” (July 22). Such mental agony has become a routine for every Pakistani. Should Pemra also restrict violence which is played on TV news channels? I tend to disagree with the writer on a few points. Most channels like HBO are […]
ISLAMABAD: Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) Chairman Raja Shafqat Abbasi has approved the constitution of Advisory Committee of Academia to assist the PCP on the issues related to the media ethics, their promotion and inclusion of ethics in curriculum, etc, and to give recommendations in this regard. According to a press release issued on Friday, […]
KARACHI: Reluctance to talk and lack of cooperation from corporate institutions are the biggest obstacles that commerce journalists face when reporting on corporate governance. This was the crux of a group discussion on the ‘Role of Media in Promoting Effective Corporate Governance’ organised by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank under its Pakistan Corporate […]
Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) is going to hold a three-day workshop on titled “Framing responses: Journalist workshop on climate change impacts and challenges”, which will start from March 20 in Islamabad. The journalists from South Asia will be trained by the environmental scientists and climate change experts on how to report on climate […]
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