92 News Media Group prepares to launch Urdu, English language newspapers

JournalismPakistan.com | Published 9 years ago

ISLAMABAD – As part of its expansion plans, the 92 News Media Group is now preparing to launch Urdu and English language dailies soon.

The group already successfully runs 92 News Television - Pakistan's first HD channel - that went on air in February 2015. An advert published in newspapers announced that “the successful journey of 92 News Media Group continues…..Urdu and English newspaper projects are all set to take off soon.”

The advert seeks candidates for newsrooms/editorial, circulation, creative, press production, billing, sales and marketing. The vacancies are for Lahore, Karachi and, Islamabad.

A JournalismPakistan.com source says the group has already installed a printing press in the basement of the channel’s office at Zero Point.

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