Newsroom
Welcome to our Newsroom, your one-stop destination for the latest stories meticulously curated and refined by our skilled sub-editors. This dynamic section features a diverse mix of news articles spanning some of our main categories, including Pakistan, World, Asia, Opportunities, and Women in Media. Stay updated with the most current and compelling stories, all in one place, as we bring you comprehensive coverage of the events and issues shaping the media world.
Unpaid for months, Nawa-e-Waqt staffers face severe crisis
Published 6 years ago: Nawa-e-Waqt employees narrate their financial difficulties because of wage delays for the last six to seven months in a letter to their boss.
Iran sentences journalist Marzieh Amiri to 10.5 years in prison, 148 lashes
Published 6 years ago: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the sentencing of reporter Marzieh Amiri to 10 and a half years in prison and 148 lashes.
KhUJ condemns attack on Samaa team
Published 6 years ago: The Khyber Union of Journalists condemns an attack on Samaa TV news team, reportedly by the staff of Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit.
Journalist killed in Mexico
Published 6 years ago: The head of a Mexican news website is found stabbed to death in the center of the country.
Police halt reporters' symbolic attempt to reach Kashmir
Published 6 years ago: Pakistani police stop hundreds of journalists from symbolically trying to cross the highly militarized border into Indian-controlled Kashmir.
PPF expresses grave concern over media blackout in Indian held Kashmir
Published 6 years ago: Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) expresses grave concern over the communications blackout in Indian held Kashmir.
IFJ calls for lifting of information siege in Indian Occupied Kashmir
Published 6 years ago: The International Federation of Journalists calls on authorities in Indian-Occupied Kashmir to lift the information siege on the region.
PFUJ condemns media blackout in Indian-held Kashmir
Published 6 years ago: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalist strongly condemns restrictions on media and complete lockdown in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir.
Owais Tohid moves to 92 News
Published 6 years ago: Senior journalist Owais Tohid joins 92 News Television where he will appear in the program Muqabil.
BBC steps up shortwave broadcasts in Kashmir during media shutdown
Published 6 years ago: The BBC World Service extends output on shortwave radio in Indian-administered Kashmir to provide reliable news and information.
Authorities in IOK complain to Twitter about journalist Wajahat S. Khan
Published 6 years ago: The authorities in Indian Occupied Kashmir seek details of Pakistani journalist Wajahat S. Khan’s account from Twitter, claiming he is spreading rumors.
American journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines
Published 6 years ago: An American journalist working in the Philippines is shot and critically wounded while retrieving his daughter from school.
CPJ alarmed over internet shutdown in Indian-held Kashmir
Published 6 years ago: The Committee to Protect Journalists expresses alarm at reports of a communication blackout and the arrest of a journalist in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Two passersby killed, three staffers of TV channel injured in Afghanistan blast
Published 6 years ago: Two people were killed in a blast targeting workers for an Afghan television station on Sunday, officials said.
RSF writes to Imran Khan over press freedom violations
Published 6 years ago: Reporters Without Borders writes an open letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan calling for recognizing the decline in the state of press freedom in Pakistan.
Mexican journalist found dead in car trunk: police
Published 6 years ago: A Mexican journalist who covered the police in the violent southwestern state of Guerrero is found dead in the trunk of a vehicle.
News TV blackouts draw fresh accusations of censorship
Published 6 years ago: Pakistani opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Imran Khan of intimidating broadcasters into a blackout on television coverage of his critics.
Prime minister unfollows Hamid Mir on Twitter
Published 6 years ago: Prime Minister Imran Khan unfollows prominent Geo News TV presenter Hamid Mir on Twitter.
PFUJ rejects plan to set up media courts
Published 6 years ago: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists rejects the idea of media courts, proposed by Special Assistant to Prime Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan.
Union condemns termination of 150 City 42 employees
Published 6 years ago: Punjab Union of Journalists condemns the termination of about 150 employees by City 42 Television.
Lawyers attack 24 News reporters in Faisalabad
Published 6 years ago: Mohammad Tayyab and Ali Raza, two reporters of 24 News, are brutally beaten by a group of lawyers in Faisalabad.
IFJ calls for payment of wages to Pakistani journalists
Published 6 years ago: Journalists in Pakistan face financial instability with reports that some have not been paid for over three months,
Geo News blocked amid prime minister's visit to US
Published 6 years ago: Geo News is forced off the air or has its channel number abruptly changed in many parts of the country.
Friends and colleagues remember Idrees Bakhtiar and Anil Datta
Published 6 years ago: Friends and colleagues gather at the Centre for Excellence in Journalism to remember journalists Idrees Bakhtiar and Anil Datta, who passed away recently.
Study finds Pakistan a high-risk country in terms of media pluralism
Published 6 years ago: A study has found Pakistan a high-risk country in terms of media pluralism with more than half of the mass media ownership concentrated in only a few hands.
Radio journalist murdered in Afghanistan
Published 6 years ago: Nader Shah Sahebzadeh, a talk show host for Radio Gardez Ghar, is found killed in the Gardez, the capital of Paktia province in Afghanistan’s east.
Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award for Dawn Editor Zaffar Abbas
Published 6 years ago: The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor editor of Dawn newspaper Zaffar Abbas with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award this November.
Journalists hold protests to denounce censorship
Published 6 years ago: Journalists hold nationwide protests to denounce rampant censorship, massive layoffs due to budget cuts and months-long delays in payments of their wages.

