Thursday September 07, 2006

A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues

MEDIA AND GOVT

Cantt boards frustrate drive against billboards

While the city district government has banned billboards on main thoroughfares in its limits, the business of billboards is thriving along the same roads in the cantonment board limits in the city. A visit to major roads would reveal that after the removal of hundreds of billboards on Sharea Faisal and other localities, such as Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Saddar and parts of Clifton, a large number of fresh super billboards have sprung up, posing great threat to the lives of the passersby or vehicles parked around in case of strong winds or rainfall etc.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/07/local2.htm

MEDIA TRAINING

New initiative to build capacity of health journalists

A new media initiative aimed at improving coverage of and public knowledge about home and hospital-based healthcare for mothers and newborns starts on September 12 with a series of high-quality training workshops that will build the media's capacity to cover mother and newborn healthcare (MNH) issues. Implemented by Intermedia, a media development NGO, in collaboration with the USAID-funded Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN), the seven-month project will feature five three-day training workshops in 10 selected districts of Pakistan .

http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_news.asp?id=6

PRESS CLUB

Journalists urged to help curb social evils

Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Salim Saifullah Khan has urged journalists to use their pen to eradicate evils from the society. He was speaking at the oath-taking ceremony of the office-bearers of Lakki Union of Journalists and the Serai Naurang press club here on Tuesday. He said the government was determined to resolve the problems of journalists. He also announced a grant of Rs50,000 for the press club.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/07/nat24.htm

STATE OF MEDIA

Indian media and Indo-Pak ties

By A. SIDDIQUE

In the context of Indo-Pak politics, where the two countries, with the passage of time, have evolved archaic positions, media's role to inject new perspective for breaking the mould and to create a positive ambience for positive engagement hardly needs any elaboration. It is however disconcerting to observe the servile manner in which the Indian media has joined in Indian Government's propaganda war against Pakistan.

http://nation.com.pk/daily/sep-2006/7/columns2.php

SOURCES:

The News: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/

The Nation: http://www.nation.com.pk/

Daily Times: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/

The Dawn: http://www.dawn.com

Spider: www.spider.tm

BBC South Asia : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/

Herald: http://dawn.com/herald/

Aurora : www.aurora@dawn.com

The Economist: www.economist.com

IFEX: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/158/

Jang: http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/

Nawa-i-waqt: http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk

Khabrain: http://www.khabrain.com

Daily Development News: http://asp.isb.sdnpk.org/

The Post: http://www.thepost.com.pk/

Business Recorder: http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org

Asia Media: www.asiamedia.ucla.edu

PEMRA: www.pemra.gov.pk

States Man: http://www.statesman.com.pk

Frontier Post: www. frontierpost .com.pk

Compiled by , Sajid Gondal Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan .

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