Journalism’s slow death
Journalism in Pakistan has always been a high-risk profession, but today, it faces an existential crisis. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) has become a powerful tool to silence…
Journalism for good
IF you remember Facebook when it started, you’ll remember the excitement of connecting with old friends and family in faraway places. Over the years, the platform grew to a place…
Crisis in journalism
TELEVISION doesn’t get an Eid break, so those of us who make a living from this medium are more than familiar with the idea of an Eid show. As Ramazan…
A requiem for fine journalism
RONALD L. Haeberle was a combat photographer with the US army whose pictures exposed the horrors of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1969. Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, at…
Journalism’s last stand
IN the changed times we face, there is a new government and a new opposition. The establishment has turned neutral and the world too is facing not a pandemic but…
The lost voice of journalism
Journalism has become a dangerous profession in Sindh. Out of the 11 journalists killed in the past few years, seven of them were from upper Sindh. Most recently, a vocal…
Inside the Red Zone: Saving journalism
Journalism in the digital age is a challenge that many established practitioners are struggling with. In Pakistan, this struggle manifests itself daily on newspapers pages and television screens as reporters,…
Rahimullah Yusufzai: journalism as war
WITH the passing away of Rahimullah Yusufzai ends an important phase in the reporting of imperialist wars in Afghanistan and the adjacent Pakhtun tribal areas. Despite his painful cancer treatment…
Journalism and the internet
IT is undeniable that the internet and social media have fundamentally changed the media landscape in the world in more ways than one. And as governments get eager to regulate…
Prof Tausif on journalism: Part – II
Prof Tausif Ahmed’s writings on journalism take us through the vicissitudes of this country and how journalists have endured hardships while fighting for the freedom of expression. One such article…
