Real training, real jobs: media

by Glenda Nevill
It is a sad fact that thousands of post-matric students, desperate for further education, are taken in by fly-by-night educations institutions promising them training that will lead to jobs. It’s another sad fact that they rarely deliver what the promise.
The media industry is no different. Aspiring journalists and media professionals who are strapped for cash unwittingly sign up for courses that lead to nothing but disappointment. But how do they identify which are actually accredited by the industry, and which are taking their money without offering much more than the most basic of skills in return?

Indian, Pakistani journalists urge people-friendly policies

Spend less on defence and more on people,” Indian and Pakistani journalists urged their governments at a media conclave in Mumbai last week, during the recent visit of a media delegation from the Karachi and Hyderabad Press Clubs hosted by the Press Club of Mumbai.
Speakers at this and at other events held during the week urged the governments to make the visa process easier, re-establish consulates in Karachi and Mumbai and increase the number of journalists allowed to work across the border. At present, only two journalists each from India and Pakistan are stationed at Islamabad and New Delhi respectively.

Still no justice for murdered journalist Saleem Shahzad

By Andrew Buncombe
The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents -
Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 7:19 am 
A year has somehow charged past since the abduction and murder of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad, a full 12 months in which no suspect has been identified, no-one charged with his killing and nobody brought to justice.

Indo-Pak visa travails

Desiree Francis Thursday, May 31, 2012

For any Pakistani, a visit to India starts with the excruciating task of applying for a visa, the fear of not getting it, the praying to get it and the nightmare stories of time lost at the immigration (it’s the same for Indians visiting Pakistan, if that makes you feel better).

Journalists wary of Skills test : KSA

By Fatima Muhammad
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – Since the announcement last week that journalists working for media organizations in the Kingdom ought to undergo tests to determine their eligibility to work in the profession, questions have arisen on the nature of these examinations and how journalists will be evaluated.
Meanwhile, expatriates working in the field are in a quandary. Many of them are unsure whether they can continue working in the field or not.
The decision which has restricted journalism jobs to those registered with the Saudi Journalists Association (SJA) aims to ensure professionalism in the media sector.

Adapting old skills to new media

David Vaughan
 The Czech media landscape is changing beyond recognition, as anyone who used to listen to Radio Prague on shortwave knows only too well. So how is the Czech Republic keeping pace with the digital revolution? And what are the new dangers that go with the social media, citizen journalism and all the other innovations that are transforming the work of the traditional journalist? For the last three months David Vaughan has been teaching broadcasting history to students at Prague’s Anglo-American University. As part of the course he asked his students to map some of the latest shifts in the Czech digital media landscape. The following programme is the result of their investigation.

2nd edition of ‘Radio Journalism’

The National Book Foundation (NBF) has published the second revised edition of ‘Radio Journalism’ written by broadcaster and journalist Mahmood Hussain, says a press release.

The book is useful for graduation and post-graduation level students of Mass Communication and also for on-job training courses and workshops in broadcasting institutions. The book is an addition to a small number of books written on broadcast journalism in Pakistan.

Connecting India, Pakistan, Afghanistan through social media

Osama Manzar

Social media is power in the true sense, with regimes being seriously threatened or even overthrown in countries including Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Tunisia.

I start my travels with a tweet. Most of my meetings, talks and visits are logged on Twitter. Each journey ends with a brief travelogue and photos uploaded on Facebook. There are many tools such as Posterous that can integrate all these activities simply through an email. Easily and swiftly, my message directly reaches to a few thousand relevant people who further propagate the message to many more with their Facebook likes, Twitter retweets and many other share tools. This power is now available to anyone with an Internet access—about two billion people. And the impact is seen on contemporary history, which is witnessing some unprecedented challenges.

Social media is power in the true sense, with regimes being seriously threatened or even overthrown in countries including Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Tunisia. The Occupy Wall Street protests stirred the mighty US. In India, the Anna Hazare movement galvanized thousands of people from various parts of India and pushed the government into taking some shaky steps.

Seminar on 'Role of media in promoting peace in the sub-continent’ kicks off in Mumbai

 New Delhi, May 23, IRNA – A seminar on ‘The role of media in promoting peace in the sub-continent’ kicked off Tuesday in Mumbai, business capital of India in Maharashtra state.
 During the seminar, media persons from Mumbai and Karachi press clubs have called for liberalised visa regime for journalists from both countries to ensure free exchange of information.

Threatened Pakistani Journalist Seeks Asylum in Australia

A Pakistani minority journalist being held at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre, 40 kilometers southeast of Derby in West Australia, says he now feels "protected" from Islamic terrorist groups that had threatened to kill him in his home country. Amjad Hussain, 38, a print and broadcast journalist, was the only reporter from the often marginalized Hazara ethnic community working in Pakistan's mainstream media in Islamabad, the nation's capital. In less than a decade, extremist groups have killed nearly 600 Hazaras for practicing a Shia version of Islam in Sunni majority Pakistan. Hussain describes himself as a Hazara modernist, a secular professional who has come under attack for his ethnicity and for highlighting the human rights abuses committed by extremist groups and certain segments of the Pakistani security forces.

No joke: Moves to squelch Pakistani media, again

By Mazhar Abbas/CPJ Guest Blogger

With general elections approaching, the landscape is again bearing eerie resemblance to the final days of General Pervez Musharraf's reign. In November 2007 he banned selected TV channels for 88 days to stifle what he saw as "irresponsible journalism." Now, Pakistani electronic media might be chained again, this time for violating cultural and ethical values by airing satirical programming and interviewing political leaders the government does not like seeing on air.

Pakistanis resist creeping media vigilantism

AFP/Islamabad
Most Pakistanis dislike the police, blaming them for being corrupt and aggressive — but now the media is earning a similar reputation for its frequent attacks on people’s privacy.
Pakistan’s ever-growing freewheeling private television stations have given birth to “vigilante journalism” aimed at exposing people — often ordinary members of the public — they say are breaching social morals.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf liberalised the media in 1999, opening the way for the first time to private news and entertainment channels. There are now more than 80, 40 of them broadcasting round-the-clock news in five languages.
In January, TV anchor Maya Khan caused a storm of protest with her show Raid in the Morning, in which she and a group of veiled women chased couples in a park accusing them of behaving immorally.

Objectivity’ is deceit

 

Farooq Sulehria

Almost every commercial media outlet claims to be "objective." Likewise, most professional journalists would proudly swear allegiance to “objectivity.” This supposed neutrality perspective is, in fact, an Anglo-American legacy that has been widely adopted by media in other parts of the world too. It is a legacy of corporatist victory over partisan press. As in the UK, the US press, affiliated with political parties, was highly partisan until the 19th century. The US Socialist Party alone published some 325 daily, weekly, and monthly publications with two million subscribers. Its major organ, Appeal to Reason, had nearly a million subscribers.

US consulate holds 2-day workshop

LAHORE: US Consulate General Lahore’s Public Affairs Section hosted two days of journalism training on Tuesday and Wednesday for media professionals and journalism students from across Punjab.
Indiana University Professor Dr Sherry Ricchiardi, an expert media trainer, journalist, and author, led more than 60 participants during the two days of workshops. The first day of training was for print and broadcast journalists and focused on media ethics and investigative journalism.

Pakistanis slam media vigilantism

By Hasan Mansoor

Most Pakistanis dislike the police, blaming them for being corrupt and aggressive - but now the media is earning a similar reputation for its frequent attacks on people's privacy.

Pakistan's ever-growing freewheeling private television stations have given birth to “vigilante journalism” aimed at exposing people - often ordinary members of the public - they say are breaching social morals.

Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf liberalised the media in 1999,

Appeals Panel Weighs Question on Press Rights

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

RICHMOND, Va. — At least two members of a three-judge federal appeals court panel appeared to express some skepticism on Friday about prosecutors’ request that they overturn a district judge’s order protecting a journalist from being forced to identify his confidential sources in the trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency officer.

Nearly an hour of oral arguments here before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit concluded with no definitive answer as to how the court will rule about whether the journalist, James Risen, can be forced to testify in a high-profile leak case that has raised a significant test of the First Amendment.

One judge, Roger Gregory, sharply criticized prosecutors’ contention that the Constitution offers no special protection to a reporter who is a witness to a particular type of crime: the unauthorized disclosure of government secrets to that very reporter by an official.

Attacks on journalists PCP demands security for media persons

Islamabad—Attacks on the media persons are not only condemnable but also tantamount to causing interference in the free dissemination of information to the general public. Safety, security and protection of the media persons should be the top priority of the law enforcing agencies who are not only required to maintain law and order but also uphold the law and the constitution.

This was stated by Chairman, Press Council of Pakistan, Raja Shafqat Abbasi in a letter written to the Inspector General Police, Government of Punjab.

In Memoriam: Haseeba Shaheed

RFE/RL mourns the passing of Radio Mashaal broadcaster and mother of two Haseeba Shaheed. A disciplined journalist and radiantly cheerful friend and colleague, Shaheed covered the news in Afghanistan and Pakistan for over a decade, often risking her life to report on critical issues affecting minorities and women.
A native of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province, Shaheed -- like millions of other Afghans whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated by three decades of civil war -- fled the country with her family during high school to Peshawar, in neighboring Pakistan.

‘Don’t take peace for granted,’ warns Pakistani journalist

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Mahvash Ali
New Zealand media must be careful not to take peace for granted, says a Pakistani journalist studying in the country.
“Pakistani journalists face moral dilemmas everyday in reporting the so-called ‘war on terror’,” says Ruskhsana Aslam, a doctoral candidate and journalist at Auckland University of Technology.
“They have historical context and do amazing investigative journalism, yet find themselves asking, ‘Is this story worth my life?’”

Sharmila highlights role of media

Karachi—Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh on Media, Sharmila Faruqi, has said that media and culture go together and a balance should be maintained between them.

This she said while speaking as chief guest here at a seminar on ‘Media Portrayal of Pakistani Culture’ at Sindh Madressatul Islam (SMI) University on Thursday. She said that the trend of sensationalism must be discouraged.

Fake journalists

Mohammad Khan Sial
All Pakistanis who believe in healthy journalism would be in shock to see a statement of Rehman Malik, Interior Minister claiming he had sent “his men” disguised as media persons to trace Uzair Baloch. This is highly objectionable act on part of Mr Malik as act of sending fake journalist is against all norms of journalism, humanity and prevailing law because such illegal practice has put the lives of thousands of genuine journalists at high risk.

I appeal to Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Karachi Union of Journalists, Lahore Union of journalists, various Press Clubs particularly Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad besides all those who are associated with journalism to take statement of Mr Malik seriously. If they do not raise objection on Mr Malik’s act, there would be an unending practice that would not only pollute the healthy journalism but would also jeopardise the lives of thousands of genuine journalists who are engaged in reporting. Please act before it is too late.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=155889

Media urged to highlight human interest issues

ISLAMABAD:  Flourishing free media and responsible journalism have been critical to the strengthening of democracy in Pakistan over the past decade.

These views were expressed by Canadian envoy Ross Hynes at an award presenting ceremony titled “Canadian High Commissioner’s Awards for Pakistani Journalism in the Public Interest” on Thursday.
“Pakistani journalists are serving their country on the front lines, shining light in dark places in the face of intimidation and threats. Today, we want to express our support for the Pakistani media community by celebrating journalism that focuses attention on the public interest – the issues that matter to Pakistanis,” he added.
Hynes announced that the awards will be given every year.

Pakistan, Mexican journalists join memorial wall in Washington

By Julian Trauthig and Pat Reber

May 14--WASHINGTON -- Seventy-two journalists from around the world who died covering some of the worst conflicts in 2011 were honoured Monday in Washington as their names were added to a memorial wall.

Among them were seven journalists killed in Pakistan and another seven killed in Iraq -- the two countries with the highest death tolls last year.

The annual sombre event at the Newseum, on Washington's mall, drew about 70 journalists and family members who listened as each name was read, followed by the sounding of a gong. A moment of silence after all the names were read signaled their final entry into journalism history.

Kenya: Is Journalism a Profession, a Trade or a Craft?

The just ended East African journalists' convention at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre was an eye opener in more than one way.
It brought into the fore the hard realities of semantic differences in interpreting vital terminologies in the profession between the traditional adversaries in journalism. This time the tug of war rope was the term journalism itself. Does it signify a profession, a trade or a craft.
On one end of the rope were qualified practitioners backed by academics and some lawyers who believed journalism in Kenya ought to be, if indeed it isn't already, a profession. They strongly argued that if journalism in the region wasn't a profession then the process of professionalizing it legally ought to have started ages ago. On the other end of the rope were believers in keeping journalism as a craft for fear of introducing regulations to professionalize it with the danger of controlling its practice.

Award for former Dawn staffer: Zubeida blazed

FORMER Dawn staffer Zubeida Mustafa has been awarded the International Women’s Media Foundation’s annual Lifetime Achievement Award. The IWMF’s announcement of this year’s winner came on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, which was observed recently.

Media students determined to become a voice of oppressed

Islamabad—Students studying Mass Communication at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) have said that they will adopt the field of journalism not as a profession but as an obligation to serve their country and countrymen. This determination came at the conclusion of an extra- curricular week which, beside other activities, featured practical journalistic exercises at the Islamabad campus.

Students said they are committed to empower the powerless in Pakistan by becoming their voice as media persons. Aspiring journalists said after completion of their education they will focus their journalistic pursuits.—APP

New Book Glimpses into Work of Pakistani Cartoonist

Roughly two and a half years ago, prolific painter and art instructor Dr. Ajaz Anwar commented on plans to publish a book that would contextualize the writings and sketch work of his late father, Dr. Anwar Ali, an influential political cartoonist. At the time, Dr. Ajaz Anwar's intentions were such that he felt current students of literary and visual journalism needed a refresher of social commentary and its effectiveness. Now, years later, the book has been published, but looks to do more than lend some encouragement to post-secondary art students. According to local news reports, Dr. Ajaz's Nae Reesan Sheher Lahore Diyan is also a smart reflection of historical Lahore, and the old traditions native to eastern Pakistan.

Pakistan: AKI's Marra remembers slain Pakistani journalist

May 14--ROME -- Adnkronos International (AKI) director and editor in chief Giuseppe Marra in an interview with the Xinhua news agency remembers slain Pakistani reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad. The AKI stringer was killed in May 2011. His tortured body was found 150 kilometrs from Islamabad.
Shahzad's name was included on the Journalists Memorial at the Newseum in Washington in a ceremony on Monday.
Q: Being a journalist is a life mission as well as a profession. Is there something in particular that you and the agency you run learned from Shahzad's work?

Museum of Journalism in Washington honors fallen journalists

WASHINGTON, May 15 (APP):  Washington’s museum of journalism, Newseum, added the names of 70 international reporters including seven Pakistanis, who died in the line of duty last year, to a dedicated memorial. The somber ceremony reminded the world of dangers journalists face  in conflict-hit and several other regions of the world, where groups or countries do not allow freedom of expression. The names of fallen journalists have been added to a separate panel  in the memorial, and their stories are included in the interactive kiosks in the Journalists Memorial Gallery.

Veteran journalist testifies: Media of today a disappointment

Yvonne Baboolal

Former television programme manager Bernard Pantin yesterday told the commission of enquiry into the 1990 uprising that the media’s performance today is disappointing. Pantin was programme manager at Trinidad & Tobago Television, T&T’s lone television station in 1990, which Jamaat al Muslimeen insurgents had seized.
When it was put to him by lead counsel Avory Sinanan that the media’s failure to regulate itself is “abysmal,” Pantin replied, “I won’t call it abysmal. “It’s something that disappoints me.” Noting that one cannot legislate against it, Pantin said there is a “desperate” need for education of media workers and to go back to the old tenets of confirming the report from more than one source.

Power and the press

A.G Noorani
THE inquiry by Lord Justice Brian Leveson into the ethics and practices of the British media has exposed some dark facts of the relationship between men in power and the press.
The issue of access came to the fore because it concerned the owner of the News Corporation’s (Rupert Murdoch), easy access to four prime ministers — Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
Time there was, nearly two centuries ago, when an editor proclaimed that “the newspaper is not an organ through which government can influence people, but through which the people can influence the government”.

Two journalists killed in two days in Sindh; three persons killed in Larkana

South Asian News Agency (SANA) ⋅ May 11, 2012 ⋅

LARKANA, (SANA): Two Journalists were gunned down in two days in Sindh, while three persons among a woman were killed in separate incidents here in Larkana and Kamber-Shahdadkot on Friday.
According to the reports, on Thursday a TV journalist Aurangzeb Tunio along with brother and his friend were gunned down by the armed men of Mugheri tribe in Lalu Rank city of Kamber-Shahdadkot, while in another print media journalist from Balochistan Sayed Tariq Kamal, a resident of 13-D Gulshan Karachi was abducted with his fried and found dead bodies at Liyari Nala told Karachi police.

Slain Azerbaijani Journalist To Be Commemorated At U.S. Newseum

By RFE/RL

May 12, 2012

An Azerbaijani freelance reporter for RFE/RL will become one of 70 journalists killed in action last year to be commemorated at a U.S. news and journalism museum. Rafiq Tagi, 61, died in hospital days after being stabbed by an unknown assailant.
He said the attack was related to a critical article he had written about human rights in Iran.

S.M Zafar wants free education bill passed

By: Iftikhar Alam 
LAHORE – Renowned constitutional expert S.M. Zafar has urged Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed to make efforts for the passage of children’s free education bill in the Senate.“I introduced this bill as a member of the Senate many years ago, but it is still pending. As a senator, it is Mushahid’s duty to get this bill passed from the Upper House at the earliest,” Zafar said while addressing the launching ceremony of Mowahid Hussain Syed’s book titled ‘Will & Skill’ at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan on Wednesday.

No constitutional crisis in country, says Kaira

LONDON: Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Friday said there was no constitutional crisis in the country as all state institutions fully recognised Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as the legitimate head of the government.
Speaking to media representatives, the information minister when asked about the timings of the Supreme Court’s judgment soon after the prime minister’s departure to the UK said it provided an opportunity to the Leader of Opposition in the NA Cahudhry Nisar Ali Khan to make statements for not according him due protocol.

Peshawar shows it can host international conferences again

Nisar Mahmood
PESHAWAR: The international two-day conference on the rising intolerance and violence in the society held here recently showed that the city despite suffering from periods of insecurity was still able to host such events.

The conference made a renewed call for stopping stereotyping of the Pakhtuns and making efforts for bringing an end to violence.The panellists as well as participants were unanimous that violence and intolerance in all manifestations were poisonous for the society and unbearable in a civilized society. They called for collective efforts to promote tolerance through media, art and culture, awareness campaigns and educating the society.

Perils of reporting in Balochistan

Shehzad Baloch
A senior journalist chose his words very carefully while explaining to a guest who had come to Quetta from Islamabad to compile a report on difficulties and circumstances under which journalists work in Balochistan.

“The deteriorating situation is a result of war and terror that Pakistan has been fighting for the past three decades. There is lawlessness in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal regions but Balochistan is the worst affected,” he told him.

Media promoting status quo in Pakistan: SDPI

ISLAMABAD - Although the media has become one of the powerful factors in term of its impact and ability to shape the narratives, it is simultaneously facilitating the overall change process and promoting the status quo in Pakistan. The media has a weak reformist role as its functioning and internal governance are largely dominated by the commercial interests as opposed to public interest, said the speakers at a panel discussion on ‘Media: a catalyst for change’ organised by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) here on Monday.

Talat Hussain: On journalism ethics in Pakistan

Renowned senior journalist, Talat Hussain, a well known columnist and news anchor, has been witness to the ups and downs of Pakistan’s media for some time now.
Speaking on ethical journalism, he shares his views with The Express Tribune based on his own experiences in the industry.
Ethical journalism
Ethics to Talat Hussain means being faithful to the fact, getting the other side of the story and paying attention to the story’s context.  He says that ethics or absence of ethics is a problem and a challenge because primarily, people don’t know what ethics is all about.

A Free Press? What if Wapping were Islamabad?

Lord Hunt of Wirral has proposed a revamp of the Press Complaints Commission, which he now chairs. His is a serious and considered response to the complex issues being considered with great dexterity by Lord Justice Leveson's historic inquiry.
The challenges faced by Leveson and Hunt are daunting - but transposing their activities to Pakistan would prove formidable even for men of such intellect, skill and diplomacy.
Pakistan has witnessed a huge increase in the number of private news channels in the last decade. Previously, the market was monopolised by a single state-owned television network that was heavily influenced by government functionaries and provided limited information access to the public.

Media matters

There used to be a certain reserve around the business of news. Whether great journalism or mere propaganda, the reports in a newspaper were seldom hysterical. Of course, that changed when more Urdu newspapers started competing with each other – the emotive headlines are still remembered by many – but the text of the news report would be mostly straightforward.
In the last decade or so, cable news television came into its own in Pakistan. But as more and more channels started and competition intensified, so did emotions and hysterics. We have had anchors abuse on air, flail around their arms, beat their chests, bully the guests, till the guests decided to do the same. Now many news programmes and talk shows are watched or avoided, depending on what kind of day you’ve had, because of the anchor’s propensity to sit on the pulpit and berate everyone, and the guests’ willingness to out-shout the opponent’s opinion. Of course, army and big business are mostly exempt from any loud criticism.

UK should help Pakistan tackle media crisis

By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator

Amid political tumult in Islamabad, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and a team of six ministers are in London for far-ranging meetings today through May 13. The Pakistan-U.K. Enhanced Strategic Dialogue will review education, health, defense, security, and cultural cooperation. CPJ has written a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron to urge that press freedom conditions be raised as well.

As we pointed out, Pakistan has been the world's deadliest country for journalists for two consecutive years. That record reflects fatalities from both dangerous assignments and targeted murders.

10 top tips for the journalists of tomorrow

We round up the best comments, questions and answers from our recent live chat on tomorrow's journalist – what tools and skills will they need to survive and thrive?

Hannah Waldram, community coordinator, news, the Guardian

Drop the snobbery around engaging readers: We don't need to continually get hung up about things like members of the general public contributing to the storytelling process (or the loathed term 'citizen journalism') – the sooner young journalists can dismiss any snobbery to do with engaging readers, the closer they will be to looking like a journalist of the future.

Eritrea leads world in press censorship: report

NEW YORK — Eritrea has surpassed North Korea as the world's top press censor, with Syria and Iran placing third and fourth in a new list published Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The New York-based rights group said Eritrea had climbed to the top of the list by banning all foreign media and controlling every detail of the local media's coverage through its information ministry.
"Every time (a journalist) had to write a story, they arrange for interview subjects and tell you specific angles you have to write on," it quoted an exiled Eritrean journalist as saying on condition of anonymity.
"We usually wrote lots about the president (Issaias Afeworki) so that he's always in the limelight."

Tanzania: Journalists Want Recognition and Respect

Zanzibar — WORLD Press Freedom Day will be commemorated on Wednesday, May 3.
It is a day to remember that journalists in many countries are still subjected to threats, harassment and poor working environments. The theme for this year's World Press Day is 'Media Freedom Helping to Transform Society.'
Back home the Tanzanian press enjoys relatively more freedom than many countries of Africa. According to the 'Reporters without Borders', Press freedom index, Tanzania is doing well and ranked 34th last year from 41st position in 2010.

The life of a business reporter

“Journalism is writing,” columnist Aakar Patel once told me, saying I should write more to justifiably be called a journalist. I was then a sub-editor on the Op-Ed desk of The News. After spending four years on that job, I knew I had become lazy, self-satisfied and highly opinionated – characteristics of a typical sub-editor.
So I decided to become a business reporter after coming back from a one-year break that I took to do a Master’s degree in Journalism.

Protection of media professionals

With the revolution of technology, the media industry has touched new lines of success in the present scenario.
The Internet has eased the formerly hard limits of the journalistic community to include people such as bloggers, video-graphers and citizen journalists who carry out their outcomes for evolving media industry.
If one side the industry is touching new peaks, the risks too are increasing day-by-day.  The Internet is throwing up the newer challenge of the need to protect digital security.