PEMRA COC Aims Censorship In Pakistan
Freedom Network has expressed serious concern over some aspects of the recently introduced code of conduct for media on August 20 by the Pakistan’s Electronic…
Category Archives: Ethics
PEMRA Issues New Code Of Conduct For Electronic Media
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) issued Friday (August 2015) a new code of conduct for electronic media introducing new measures to audit contents and…
Crisis of credibility: Blatant Disregard For Ethics Makes Professionalism Prime Casualty of Pakistani media
A round-up of trends and impact of the plummeting ethical standards of media in 2014 By Haroon Rashid When it comes to ethics, Pakistani…
TV Anchor, CEO Indicted In ‘Contempt Of Court’ Case
The Supreme Court indicted 5 January 2015 ARY News anchorperson Mubashar Lucman and channel’s CEO Salman Iqbal in a ‘contempt of court case’ relating to…
Journalists And Conflict Of Interest
Why should Najam Sethi, one of the most prominent names in Pakistani journalism, have to accept the position of a ‘caretaker’ of a non-journalism…
Journalists Are Not Supposed To Be Politicians
“No sir, this is not my job!” I was expecting this polite but firm response from the highly respected journalist Mr Rahimullah Yusufzai, when he…
Benazir Bhutto And Pakistani Media
“Mazhar, I was shocked to see the list of journalists on the payroll of intelligence agencies. It included names of people, whom I thought were…
Becoming News: Pakistani Media in Ethical Controversy
A rare debate on media ethics has erupted within the media sector in Pakistan based on a controversy over privileged video reporting access to a…
Ethics of Live Media Coverage in Pakistan
The age of real-time media in Pakistan is now well into its second decade while live coverage is for most media consumers a pretty…