Code of Conduct for Media widely hailed

They expressed the confidence that presence of a formal code would help promote healthy journalism in the country.

Prominent journalists, anchorpersons and analysts have hailed the Code of Conduct for Media and emphasized the need for devising some workable mechanism for its proper implementation.
In their exclusive interviews with Radio Pakistan, they expressed the confidence that presence of a formal code would help promote healthy journalism in the country.

‘Media growth linked with lack of journalistic ethics’

Advocacy group asks journalists to improve working of media houses, adopt citizen friendly policies
LAHORE – A research-based advocacy and consultancy group has said that there is a need to engage with journalists to improve working of media houses and to make it more citizens friendly despite the fact that the media sector in Pakistan is growing day-by-day.

“We all can feel that citizen journalism is a growing phenomenon globally and we have to consider this as an important tool to strengthen our society and democracy,” said Farhan Khalid of the Individualland Pakistan – an Islamabad-based group – at a roundtable discussion – attended by senior journalists and some lawmakers.

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