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Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?
Moeed Pirzada Jun 27, 2008A new kind of voting belt is being created where people are more aware of the larger issues, of national causes and increasingly form opinions under the spell of Urdu media?
Anil Ambani Pursues Global Media Empire
Riaz Haq Jun 19, 2008Besides the Hollywood deals, Ambani is launching 20 TV channels and owns FM stations in India.
The Cost of a Pakistani Journalist Life
Imran Ali Teepu Nov 4, 2007What matters more? the media coverage or the person covering it? Ask a media owner of newspaper or the television and it’s the coverage.
When Puppets Hide Behind Pomposity
Farzana Versey Jul 18, 2005Journalism is full of the evils it accuses society of. The Press has in the past exposed leaders and even brought down governments.Ever heard about a media baron being at the receiving end?
Uproar over a Cartoon?
Nauman Nisar May 15, 2005Why so much uproar over an editorial cartoon? Why is it considered derogatory and why are the Pakistanis so offended?
Thus Fare Fake Democracies
Shafqat Mahmood May 11, 2005This government has gone completely bananas. On World Press Freedom Day, it chose to thrash journalists in Islamabad and Lahore.
South Asia’s Ride On The Video Tiger
Harish Nambiar Feb 22, 2005Satellite television is another tiger that South Asia is firmly riding; getting off perhaps is not too much of an immediate concern. Regulation, benchmarking, calibrating debates with nationalistic undercurrents, codes of conduct will evolve.
Plight of Karachi Journalists
Fazil Jamili Jun 10, 2004The working conditions in most of the newspapers have deteriorated with more than 75 per cent of journalists working either on contract or without appointment letters ...
Teaching journalism
Harish Nambiar Nov 12, 2003Once I asked if any in the class wanted to become foreign correspondents. Almost the whole class chorused, but of course, muffled by the loftiness of their stated agreement. Then I asked them if they liked Henry Kissinger, and virtually none of them had h
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