Tag: Media

KARACHI: The startling disclosures by WikiLeaks have further underscored the importance of media ethics at a time when contemporary media is changing fast, said Patrick Butler, vice president (programmes) of the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) Washington, on Saturday.
"It is important to decide who qualifies to be called a journalist, as besides the formal print and electronic, there are many other types of alternate media like social media, citizen-journalists,

MUMBAI: Promoting a film has become a competitive business and every filmmaker is trying to market his or her film in a unique way. And a filmmaker like Farah Khan won't follow beaten track.
She has planned something exceptional for the music launch of her upcoming film 'Tees Maar Khan' (TMK). Farah will be unveiling the music of 'Tees Maar Khan' in a train. Farah has booked an entire train from Mumbai to Lonavala and will be taking the cast, crew as well as media onboard for its

LAHORE: Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider has claimed to turn down lucrative offers from the media to give details of his decision to desert his team in Dubai midway through an ODI series and flee to London after receiving death threats for refusing to fix matches.
The 24-year-old wrote on his Facebook account that the News of the World tabloid had offered him lots of money for an interview but he spoke to them without taking a penny.
"They offered me lots of money

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari urged media on Sunday to stop selling negativity as a commodity and play its due role in making Pakistan a strong and prosperous nation.
Addressing the 4th national conference of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) here at Aiwan-e-Sadar, he said the Pakistan People's Party decided to stay away from a media group to say enough was enough and taking that decision was its political right.
"It is a format of showing our displeasure,"

BERLIN: German media offered guarded praise for an agreement in Brussels to make limited changes to the EU treaty, describing it as a compromise that bought time to find a lasting remedy to debt woes that have plagued the bloc.
Under pressure from Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, EU leaders in Brussels agreed that changes were needed to create a permanent system to handle sovereign debt problems and endorsed tougher budgetary rules, including

NEW DELHI
Tables have turned! Abhishek Bachchan has now dictated a dress code and a code of conduct to go with the dress for the media! The Bachchans have always had a love/hate relationship with the media. After the media was not allowed to cover the Abhi, Ash wedding, the bitterness widened. Ignoring the fear of being blacklisted by the Bachchans, a daily even reported the cause of Ash's delayed pregnancy.
The media too has been unkind to Ash ever since she started

BANDRA: Bollywood and punctuality don't go hand-in-hand. In fact, some stars consider being late even stylish. Arriving late at shoots, not making it in time to inaugurate events, is a done thing.
But recently, Saif Ali Khan and his girlfriend Kareena Kapoor were not spared for keeping the media waiting at an event. They were stuck in traffic, they claimed. But by then, it was too late.
On Monday evening, at a five-star hotel in Juhu, the media sat waiting for Saif and

QUETTA: The Baloch Student Organisation-Azad (BSO-A) announced to 'conditionally' end its three-day long boycott of local and national dailies on Wednesday evening after receiving assurances from the Balochistan Editor Council and representatives of news channels that the province's issues will be highlighted in their papers and convey their grievances to their respective headquarters.
The Quetta Press Club (QPC) facilitated the meeting between BSO-A spokesman Salam Sabir and

LAHORE: War Against Rape (WAR) Lahore, lawyers and journalists held a discourse, at WAR's office in Lahore on Tuesday, aiming at bringing about recommendations to tackle the issue of rape.
The issue of rape was not limited to women and girls only as boys had also been targets in many cases. Therefore one of the matters discussed was that laws against incest were not broad enough and did not protect children to the extent that they should, Sidra Humayun spoke on behalf of WAR.

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar said Monday foreign election observers and international media would not be allowed into the country for next month's election, seen by critics as a sham to entrench military rule.
Foreign diplomats and representatives from UN organisations based in Myanmar will be allowed to observe voting, said election commission chairman Thein Soe. But there is no need for overseas poll monitors because "our country has a lot of experience in elections," he said in a