• 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 […]

• May 8, 2013
• Media Ethics

KARAK: The participants of a discussion on the title of ‘Impacts of Pakistani Media, Positive or Negative’ held here on Tuesday at Khushal Khan Khattak University stressed on the media to play more responsible role in eradication of extremis from the society and added that the foreign culture invasion should be countered affectively. The all […]

• May 6, 2013
• Media Ethics

TELEVISION in the private sector has achieved much in a decade. It has forged a measure of national unity and reintroduced Urdu as a lingua franca in Pakistan. As an expatriate in the US, when I see reporters holding a mike and speaking from Loralai in KP or Kark in Balochistan or Dadu in Sindh […]

• May 6, 2013
• Media Ethics

KARACHI: On behalf of press organisations, senior lawyers will defend tomorrow (Tuesday) in the court of Sindh High Court (SHC) chief justice the immunity available to reporters of not divulging the source of the news they file. It may be recalled that in the Imran Farooq murder case, a 2-member bench of SHC headed by […]

• May 4, 2013
• Media Ethics

Fasahat Mohiuddin Karachi: Being responsible is the backbone of journalism, but the Pakistani media lack this aspect, senior journalist and author Zahid Hussain said on Friday. “The media in Pakistan try to exaggerate or create hype, deviating from actual reporting,” he said while speaking on the topic “Press and media in today’s world – Power, […]

• April 13, 2013
• Media Ethics

That elements of the Pakistani media were open to political influence in exchange for hard cash has long been suspected but never conclusively proved. It may be now. A Pandora’s box of troubles may open with the imminent release of a hitherto hidden list of journalists and media organisations that have been bribed by the […]

• April 12, 2013
• PPF Activities

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan is set to order the release of a secret list of journalists and media organisations bribed by the government in the name of national security. The decision in this regard is expected to be taken next week.The long kept secret had never been revealed in the country’s 65 years […]

• April 7, 2013
• Media Ethics

Dr Mohammad Taqi The ostensibly liberal publication gave space quite liberally to Ludhianvi to bash the Shia without a single challenging question being asked Pakistan finally saw democratically elected national and provincial assemblies plod past the five-year finish line — a first in the country’s history. Despite many flaws the outgoing parliamentarians added several constitutional […]

• April 5, 2013
• Media Ethics

Transparency International Pakistan has filed a suit against a media group – operating a television channel and an Urdu newspaper – for one billion rupees for defamation of the organisation and its Advisor Syed Adil Gilani. According to the suit Transparency is an international organisation. Allegations of “kickback” were levelled in a programme aired as […]

• April 2, 2013
• Front Page, Media Ethics

ASIM QADEER RANA ISLAMABAD – The Election Commission of Pakistan is likely to finalise a code of conduct for the media covering the upcoming general elections 2013 to ensure dissemination of credible and unbiased news. Officials told TheNation on Sunday that the representatives of media organisations, the code of conduct for media has got its […]

• March 29, 2013
• Media Ethics

Syed Kamran Hashmi The newest and most dangerous trend set by TV anchors is to act as self-proclaimed vigilantes Irrefutably contentious and ignominious, water boarding is a form of torture infamously associated with the CIA as one of its principal technique to extricate ‘important’ information from suspected terrorists. The procedure simulates drowning — a near […]

• March 12, 2013
• Media Ethics

KARACHI: Media professionals, especially working journalists should be careful about ethical standards and principles while performing their duties, said Mubeen Azhar, a senior journalist working with a foreign media organisation. Speaking at a seminar titled ‘Guide to Media Ethics’ held at Department of Mass Communication, University of Karachi (KU) on Monday, he said that Pakistan’s […]

• March 12, 2013
• Front Page, Media Ethics

By: Anil Datta Karachi: Pakistan is portrayed negatively not only in the foreign media but in the local ones too. If the media, as an institution, decides to make a difference, it needs to slowly work strategies into the system that can help improve civil society. This was the consensus emerging from an informal group […]

• March 2, 2013
• Broadcasting, Television

Naeem Tahir Advertising revenue is the main source of income for TV channel owners and they would want their programmes to be considered popular to get advertising revenues There are said to be 87 TV licences given by the government in the past. Countless TV networks came into being. Private TV channels are revenue based. […]