The Australian High Commission and the Center for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) organised online training workshops for media professionals on gender-sensitive reporting on violence against women. This is the second year running that the Australian High Commission has supported these training workshops with CEJ. This is closely tied to the international campaign 16 Days of […]
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Communique of Hamid Mir apology issued
ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist Hamid Mir has issued a written apology for the fiery speech he made at a rally in Islamabad to condemn attacks on journalists on May 28. He said it was not his intention to defame the law enforcing institutions of Pakistan, especially the Pakistani army. The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) and […]
PFUJ, HRCP, PBC term proposed ordinance an attempt to impose ‘media martial law’
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) have out-rightly rejected the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) Ordinance 2021 that the federal government intends to impose. “The proposed law is draconian in scope and devastating in its impact on the constitutional […]
Protests as Bangladesh journalist faces court after Covid reports
Dhaka: The arrest of a top Bangladesh reporter, who wrote scathing stories on the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, sparked protests by hundreds of reporters on Tuesday. Rozina Islam, an investigative journalist for Prothom Alo newspaper, was detained late Monday under the Official Secrets Act, police said. She appeared in court on Tuesday charged with […]
Journalism in Venezuela: it would be ‘a crime’ to stop
Journalism is becoming “very complicated” in Venezuela where power outages, patchy internet and threats of violence have made reporting increasingly difficult, says Luz Mely Reyes. But she says it would be “a crime” to stop. The director of Venezuelan independent news site Efecto Cocuyo made the remarks in Rio de Janeiro after media watchdog Reporters […]
Afghan journalists dying in record numbers to report the war
Moments after Afghan journalist Samim Faramarz wrapped up his live report on the latest suicide attack in Kabul, a car bomb exploded just metres away, killing him and his cameraman Ramiz Ahmadi. Their colleagues at Tolo News choked back tears as they reported the deaths live on air — cracking open a divisive debate on […]
Five dead in ‘targeted attack’ on US newsroom
A man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades burst into a newspaper office in the US city of Annapolis on Thursday, killing five employees in what police described as a “targeted attack.” Officials said the shooting at the Capital Gazette was carried out by a white adult male resident of Maryland state who was […]
Hard-line Hindu activist in India arrested over journalist’s murder
NEW DELHI: A hard-line Hindu activist was arrested on Friday by the Indian Police over his involvement in the murder of a journalist last year. According to a senior police officer, the accused K.T. Naveen Kumar was arrested on the suspicion that he was involved in supplying the weapons that were used to kill the journalist Gauri […]
Faiz Ahmed Faiz remembered on 107th birth anniversary across the nation
Legendary Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz often dubbed as the voice of revolution, is being remembered nationwide on his 107th death anniversary today. Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born on February 13, 1911, in Sialkot, and after having completed his education, he worked as a teacher, journalist, and a politician. Faiz joined Pakistan Times in 1947, […]
‘Awam’ app launched to challenge menace of fake news
LAHORE: Media Matters for Democracy (MMFD) has launched an app called ‘Awam’ – a citizen journalist platform aimed at highlighting unreported stories and to provide reliable information at the community level. ‘Awam’ is a digital tool to facilitate citizens to generate multimedia journalism content, particularly on the local governance issues of their communities, and […]