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RESOURCE CENTER - MEDIA MONITOR |
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Wednesday July 18, 2007
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A daily review of media coverage of media and communications issues. |
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Media in Courts
Sindh High Court suspends ban on BBC bulletins on Must FM103 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/07/070717_fmbbc_bulletins_rs.shtml |
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Media Miscellaneous
Government committed to working journalists’ welfare: Durrani |
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Electronic News Gathering (ENG) Service of APP
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani has said that government was committed to the welfare of working journalists and all necessary steps would be taken for the wellbeing of the journalist community. The Minister expressed these views while chairing a review meeting at Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) headquarters here on Tuesday. Managing Director (MD) APP Rai Riaz Hussain, Executive Director Javed Sarfraz Malik, other directors and senior officials of the news agency and personal staff of the Minister were also present. He urged journalists to maintain credibility and efficiency and go ahead with team spirit for optimal dissemination of correct and credible news. On the occasion, the Minister announced the regularization of 145 contractual employees of APP including 102 journalists in principle subject to codal formalities and their performance. He also approved promotion of 22 journalists from grade-III to grade II and grade-I promotion of 16 non-journalist staffers from grade VIII to grade IV, and promotion of 3 journalists from grade-I to special grade. The Minister announced that Electronic News Gathering (ENG) Service of APP would launch its full-fledged service from August 14 this year in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi simultaneously. He expressed satisfaction over the performance of different news sections of the agency. He directed the administration to provide latest gears to APP staffers. Specifically, he asked for provision of state-of-the-art equipment for APP photo service as per modern trends and needs.
The Post,
APP
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Parents unhappy young people dropping out to join the media |
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More and more students are deciding to enter the Media as a profession before finishing school and many colleges report a steady dropout rate for young people venturing into the broadcast media.
Since the country’s first FM radio channel hit the waves in the late 1990s, radio has largely become a source of extra pocket money for young people who wish to work and study. Students who spoke to Daily Times said this had not affected their career or education. “It’s fairly simple. I’m sure people my age join the media for money and exposure. Also, you get to meet people in the media and you realize what you have been missing out on,” said Ali Sattar, who dropped out of his first-year of law to work for a radio channel. His mother’s friend, who is the CEO of the radio channel he works for, approached him and said they were expanding their channel’s marketing department for which, they were putting together a team. “Each year, there has been tremendous growth and there is a lot of exposure. Since I joined, I have met most of the owners of Karachi’s most posh restaurants. It’s just a really fun job and what makes it even better is that I have [the channel] backing me up with everything I do.” When asked what about his education, Ali said he had every intention to complete a degree because one can’t go too far without it.
“I started off as one of the very first DJs at the radio channel back in my A-Levels and there has been no turning back since because after I started working with FM, I realized this is what I want to do for the rest of my life,” said Fahad Panni who has been with the media for the past 12 years. He said it wasn’t about money initially and he joined because it was just a fun job. The money became good later on and 12 years later, he had foreign universities offering him a Masters degree without an undergraduate degree because of his work experience.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\18\story_18-7-2007_pg12_7 |
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Work on Bara press club building starts |
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Construction work on Bara press club building has been started to promote constructive and healthy journalism by projecting socio economic development activities in tribal areas. While highly lauding the steps and keen interests taken by NWFP governor and political agent Khyber agency in this regard, the FATA journalists appreciated their efforts for fulfilling their demands such a s approval of press club’s building in Bara.
(Nation-19)
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Advertising
Making a killing by Salam Dharejo |
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“It is not surprising that various players are fighting over who controls every inch of vacant urban real estate. Speaking off the record, government sources disclosed that the annual turnover from billboard advertising ranges from three to four billion rupees annually.”
(Newsline-58)
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Copyrights
Plagiarism's upshot by Zainub Razvi |
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“It is quite easy to just copy and paste whatever you want to, but do you how biga crime it is? Online plagiarism is especially very common amongst students, who in an effort to find shortcuts, indiscriminately copy and paste information from the web without due citation.”
(Spider-64)
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Telecommunication
Cell phone subscribers swell to 63.15 million, up 45% |
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The cell phone subscriber base of the country has jumped to 63.15 million as of June 2007, showing a rise of 45.36 percent when compared with the figures for fiscal 2005-06 and experts see the addition of another six million subscribers by the end of the current fiscal year. According to the latest figures released by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the number of cellular service users stood at 63.15 million as of June 2007, which was 34.50 million at the end of FY 2005-06. Indicating that more than 28.65 million new connections were sold out last year as tariffs kept on coming down due to rising competition among cellular service providers that attracted more customers. Mobilink and Ufone have managed to double their subscribers while Telenor and Warid have also achieved good results in terms of subscriber growth up to 50 percent. Surprisingly, in the last moth Paktel instead of gaining has lost around 30 thousand subscribers. Throughout the year Paktel has seen many ups and downs in terms of subscribers.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\18\story_18-7-2007_pg5_13 |
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Updated at 11:00 PST (06:00 GMT) |
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