Tag: Media

Karachi mayor asks KMC for better media management

KARACHI: Mayor Waseem Akhtar said on Monday that mass communication and public relations play a vital role in making any organization effective and trustworthy....

Mexico: Journalist murdered amid wave of violence against media

MEXICO CITY: A journalist was killed on Saturday in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, adding to a wave of violence in one of...

Syria: 42 media activists killed and 47 injured in 2017

LONDON: Forty-two media activists were killed and 47 others injured mostly by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria in 2017, according to a recently...

Using social media to bring down Iranian government: Roohollah Zam

TEHRAN: Roohollah Zam, a former journalist turned exile, with the help of the encrypted safety of the messaging app Telegram and the information agency...

Int’l Federation of Journalists sketches grim picture of journalism in occupied...

Kashmiri media forced to follow official narrative to avoid bankruptcy ISLAMABAD: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has said that the government-control through advertisement...

Australian media, govt racist: China’s top paper

BEIJING: Australian media reports on Chinese interference in Australia are racist and paranoid, China’s top newspaper said on Monday, stepping up a war of...

International journalism conference kicks off in Lahore

LAHORE: International Journalism Conference 2017 kicked off at a local hotel here on Saturday. Punjab government’s information department, Foundation for Promotion of Academic Collaboration (FPAC)...

Book reading, blogs to be promoted to bridge country’s ‘intellectual deficit’

KARACHI: Senior journalists and scientists, at the one-day seminar “Blog writing for science promotion, and use of Urdu in media” held at the International Centre...

SC criticises ISI’s performance during Faizabad protests

--Judge says army not separate from government; when writ of state ends decisions are made on the streets --Bench asks how were protesters able to get...

BuzzFeed to cut jobs to focus on advertising

WASHINGTON: BuzzFeed announced that it was planning to cut an estimated 100 jobs as the news and entertainment website focuses on its advertising in...

Journalists in Balochistan caught ‘between the stick and the gun’

QUETTA: More than a dozen towns, cities and districts in Pakistan's restive province of Balochistan have been without newspapers for the past month. Journalists...

Russian ‘foreign agent’ media law attack on free speech: HRW

MOSCOW: A Russian law that could force international media outlets to register as “foreign agents” in response to US pressure on Kremlin-backed TV channel RT...

Chris Gayle wins defamation case against Australian media group

SYDNEY: West Indies cricket star Chris Gayle Monday won a defamation case against an Australian media group which claimed he exposed himself to a...

Noorani on way to recovery while outrage persists over attack on...

Ahsan says interim report of Noorani attack to be submitted in three days ISLAMABAD: The health of the outspoken journalist Ahmed Noorani is steadily improving,...

Qatar to host three-day World Innovation Summit for Education

Over 2,000 participants from 100 countries to gather in Doha to re-imagine education at a time of disruption, economic uncertainty LAHORE: Some of the world’s...

US alone can’t get UNSC seat for India: Chinese media

BEIJING: The Chinese media says that the United States is trying to use India as a lever to contain China’s growing influence but added...

Saad Rafique urges state institutions to stay within their constitutional limits

LAHORE: Federal Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique on Saturday said that the constitution has defined the role of all state institutions, including executive, judiciary and...