Friday October 13, 2006

A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues

CPJ announces International Press Freedom Awards

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday announced that it would honour four journalists from around the world with its International Press Freedom Award 2006 for their outstanding commitment to news reporting, in a ceremony coinciding with the New York-based media rights group's 25th anniversary. In a statement received here via e-mail, the CPJ said that it would honour journalists from Colombia , Yemen , the Gambia and Iraq , in a ceremony scheduled for next month, in recognition of their courage, despite risks to their personal safety.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\10\13\story_13-10-2006_pg7_19

RADIO SECTOR

Radio, TV to improve in Chitral

Television transmissions from PTV Peshawar to Chitral which were earlier being transmitted through Microwave signals will now be transmitted through sattelite channel. This was disclosed by PTV Chitral incharge engineer Haji Dawood.  Similarly PTV Peshawar transmissions will soon be viewable in Booni and Drosh he said. Radio Pakistan Chitral is carrying out an extension program in its transmissions and the transmitter power is substantially being increased, Necessary equipment has reached Chitral and land bought in Bakarabad for the purpose, it was learnt here.

http://www.chitralnews.com/LN431.htm

PPP condemns FM closure in Balakot

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has condemned the closure of a private FM radio station in Balakot by Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and demanded restoration of its transmission. In a statement issued Thursday, the spokesman of party said a private radio station Mast FM 103 had been closed down by PEMRA after the radio aired programmes criticising the alleged misuse of funds and corruption in the relief and rehabilitation work in the earthquake-affected area.

http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=63632&catid=17

LETTER TO EDITOR

Russian journalist's murder

THE murder of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia 's top journalists, who dared to expose the brutal murders committed by Russian troops in Chechnya , is an act of barbarism and a blow to the cause of truth. In her articles Novaya Gazeta, and in her books Putin's Russia : Life in a Failing Democracy and A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya , Politkovskaya wrote against Chechnya 's holocaust inflicted by Russian troops and heavily against Vladimir Putin and Boris Yeltsin. The work of Anna is extremely important because it brought attention to some hard-core facts which were previously unknown.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/10/13/letted.htm#4

MEDIA EDUCATION

IIUI plans Mass Communication classes

Vice President, International Islamic University Islamabad , Dr Anwar Ahmed Siddiqi said Thursday the university was taking steps to start Mass Communication classes from next year. He said renowned mass communication experts were being consulted to launch the ambitious programme in the university….. The News, Page-3

MEDIA BLOGS

Labour in Masjid
Whenever we (the internee reporters) meet one another we share nothing with each other but our financial problems. It is very difficult for a person to survive within limited income in the capital city, where the prices of everything are high. Yesterday during a discussion one of our colleagues was silent, who is by nature a very loquacious person. We asked him time and again but he did not open his mouth. He did not talk about any thing that was causing problem to him. At last he said we were talking about our limited packages and he was annoyed with his organisation by not giving him his salary even almost half of the month has passed. He further said that the owner of the flat, where he lives, has warned him to evacuate the residence, as he was unable to pay the rent on time. He said the café runner was also demanding the return of the money and he had spent last 'sehri' without eating any thing….

http://www.thepost.com.pk/IsbNews.aspx?dtlid=63602&catid=17

COMPILED by: Sajid Gondal, Media Monitor, Internews Pakistan (www.internews.org.pk)

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