“Don’t think journalism is going away. Delivery systems may change from paper to computers, and reporters may be renamed ‘content providers’” — Samuel G Freedman, Letters to a Young Journalist. In my contemporary journalism class at the University of Iowa, I debated with my professors over the content of social media versus real newsroom journalism. […]
Karachi: Speakers at a seminar said on Monday the role the media in Pakistan was playing for raising awareness was considered crucial to educating the people about the concept of sustainable transportation. The seminar was organised under the Pakistan Sustainable Transport (Pakstran) Project here. It aimed at effectively engaging the media to report on social […]
LAST week the Indus Resource Centre (IRC) and the Sindh Education Foundation held a joint consultative roundtable — the second such event in a series — to study the impact of the Sindh Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2013. The project funded by UKAID and DAI Europe seeks to mobilise schoolchildren […]
Sir: The media is a source of entertainment, news, sports and education. Whatever media portrays, affects and changes lives. Digital media affects human perception, understanding, feelings and cultural values. Everyone can easily access the media these days. It is true that media plays a powerful role in society and has changed it beyond the reach […]
IN the wake of sufferings caused by natural and man-made disasters in the last couple of decades, a new realisation is taking place in the contemporary world. There prevails a general comprehension to minimise the losses both to life and property to a maximum possible level through effective communication, utilising technology-based systems. Social scientists and […]
IF you follow the media, as I suspect most of us do, you would have realised that these days it seems obsessed with itself. But are you so deeply interested in these media houses’ tiffs and tussles that you eagerly await the next news bulletin on TV or desperately reach out for the day’s newspaper […]
ISLAMABAD: Media houses and journalists should not get close to political parties because it will not only affect their efficiency but also their credibility. The trend of investigative journalism is reducing because the media has been concentrating on daily issues. These views were expressed by Sherry Rehman, former minister of information and ex-ambassador to the […]
There is a requirement to form an independent media policy after essential input from all political parties, intelligentsia and other stakeholders The media, as a significant instrument of national power, may have emerged in the late 20th century but the relevance of media is by no means a new phenomenon. The media has always been […]
By: Waqas Naeem ISLAMABAD: In 2008, Islam Deen saw the harmony he had cherished in his neighbourhood collapse like the roof of a mud hut falling down in torrential rain. The catastrophe materialised unexpectedly and there was nothing he could do back then. That year, when sectarian conflict in Deen’s native Dera Ismail Khan escalated, […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban, headed by Maulana Fazlullah, on Friday took a strong exception to the recent statement of their spokesman Shahidullah Shahid regarding Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and Pakistani cricket team skipper Misbah-ul-Haq released by media and convened an emergency meeting of the Shura to announce a war against the journalists. “The Shura meeting was […]
Karachi: The 14 Indian journalists visiting Pakistan on an exchange programme paid a visit to the offices of Jang group on Monday where they talked at length with their Pakistani counterparts about the scenario of media in both the countries. The visiting journalists were particularly interested in jingoism and nationalism, claiming it has prevented objectivity […]
KARACHI: Journalists from both sides of the border should try to influence their governments to solve issues. Whenever relations are strained between India and Pakistan, journalists should stay on course and demand peace. The media should refrain from one-sided reporting and break stereotypes. These were some of the thoughts that were articulated by Indian and […]
KARACHI: A source should not set the agenda of a story, a journalist should. This was observed at a talk held on ‘The Realities of Reporting in Pakistan’ at The Second Floor on Saturday. The panelists comprised veteran print and broadcast journalists, including The News business reporter Hina Mahgul Rind, Dawn newspaper crime reporter Imtiaz […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Wednesday lawyers, media and civil society had always played an important role for the uplift of law and independence of judiciary. The lawyers’ role for the uplift of justice in one way or the other is pivotal, he said while addressing to the newly […]
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