Media in Pakistan
Welcome to Media in Pakistan, your dedicated source for the latest stories about the Pakistani media landscape. Discover news about journalist movements, press freedom, attacks on media professionals, and developments within news organizations. Stay updated on the dynamic world of Pakistani journalism and get timely insights into the industry.
Journalist summoned over critical article in Malaysia
Published 5 years ago: IFJ condemns the investigation and calls for dropping the probe against the South China Morning Post correspondent
Minister assures clearance of media workers' dues before Eid
Published 5 years ago: Many media houses have not paid salaries to staff for months and not cleared dues of those laid off
Police manhandle Hum News journalist in Nowshera
Published 5 years ago: On World Press Freedom Day, police manhandled Hum News correspondent Muhammad Amin while he covered a fight in Akora Khattak, Nowshera. Despite proving his identity, police confiscated his phone and threatened him with a gun.
Geo honors reporters slain for telling the story
Published 5 years ago: The initiative by Geo News marks the World Press Freedom Day
Maleeha Lodhi calls for release of Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman
Published 5 years ago: She says the law must be followed, and he should be allowed to contest the case on its legal merits
Unions demand dues and release of Mir Shakil
Published 5 years ago: The leaders call for the withdrawal of announced and unannounced censorship and press advice, and reinstatement of retrenched journalists
HRCP official says PTI government muffling critical voices
Published 5 years ago: Harris Khalique says the government is not only constraining independent journalists, it has also put a financial squeeze on media houses
KP government bans fake social media channels
Published 5 years ago: The decision was taken because such channels allegedly disseminate fake news and blackmail public servants
States of Control: IFJ launches 18th South Asia Press Freedom Report
Published 5 years ago: Plummeting media revenues have seen the mass shedding of more than 3,000 journalist jobs in Pakistan
ARY to slash staff salaries for three months
Published 5 years ago: ARY Digital Network announces a three-month salary cut to cope with the financial crisis due to COVID-19, exempting staff earning up to Rs100,000. DawnNews Television also reduces salaries by 10 percent.
Coronavirus cases in news organizations, curbs on media alarming: PPF report
Published 5 years ago: The report says coronavirus is a big challenge for the already crippled media and that journalists are working under growing restrictions
Family of Daniel Pearl files appeal to uphold convictions in 2002 murder
Published 5 years ago: CPJ strongly supports the Pearl family's pursuit of justice in the kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal journalist
PEMRA tells Neo TV to stop 'illegal transmission'; slaps Rs one million fine
Published 5 years ago: The regulator wants the channel to revert to its approved programming of entertainment and to stop airing news and current affairs programs
Journalist Nadir Hassan dies at 37
Published 5 years ago: Former editor of The Express Tribune Kamal Siddiqi says Hassan was a talented man whose strength was his writing
Pay cut at DawnNews
Published 5 years ago: DawnNews Television cuts staff salaries by 10 percent and halves fuel allowances amid ongoing financial challenges. This marks the third pay cut in a year, highlighting the severe impact on Pakistani journalists facing layoffs and delayed salaries since 2018.
Khabrain journalist dies of coronavirus in Sukkur
Published 5 years ago: He is the first journalist to die of the virus in Sindh
Missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain found dead in Sweden
Published 5 years ago: Sajid Hussain, a journalist from Balochistan and editor-in-chief of Balochistan Times, was found dead in a river in Uppsala, Sweden in May 2020. Hussain, who sought asylum in Sweden in 2017 due to threats in Pakistan, had been missing since March 2.
PFUJ concerned over rising coronavirus cases in media houses
Published 5 years ago: The union wants media houses to immediately put in place measures for the safety and security of journalists and workers
Report presents a grim media situation with 92 violations in 2019
Published 5 years ago: An average of over seven cases of violations occurred in a moth—one every fourth day, or twice a week
2019 a year of curbs and chokehold on media: HRCP
Published 5 years ago: The commission says numerous journalists have reported that it had become even more difficult to criticize state policy
Ten City 42 employees contract coronavirus
Published 5 years ago: The staffers are being treated at Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute
PFUJ calls on government to respect press freedom
Published 5 years ago: The union leaders express alarm over censorship and the delay in payment of salaries and dues to media workers
Rs2 million grant for press clubs of merged KP districts
Published 5 years ago: More steps to be taken for the development of journalism in merged districts, official says
Journalist brothers test positive for COVID-19 in Peshawar
Published 5 years ago: Asif Shehzad works for Such TV and Wajid Shehzad is associated with GNN
Safety recommendations for journalists covering COVID-19 pandemic
Published 5 years ago: RSF and Freedom Network tell media houses not to send reporters to places where a big crowd is expected
Murder suspected in journalist hanging death
Published 5 years ago: PFUJ suspects the murderers tried to stage Qaisar's death as a suicide
PEMRA directs TV channels to pay staff salaries before Eid
Published 5 years ago: The regulator expresses concern over depriving journalists of their legitimate right and causing distress to their families
Slain journalist Hayatullah's family seeks judicial commission's findings
Published 5 years ago: The journalist's body was found in December 2006 in village Khushalli Torikhel Wazir in North Waziristan

