State Control, Corporate Interests, and Media Independence in Pakistan
During the past two decades, the media sector in Pakistan has grown immensely in terms of scale and influence. With the deregulation policy and…
Stranger to History, By Aatish Taseer
Ziauddin Sardar’s review for The Independent is worth a read: Aatish Taseer grew up in Delhi with his Indian mother, a Sikh journalist. The…
Journalism
Ahmed Rashid’s Website Guardian Independent UK Khalid Hasan Online Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism Robert Fisk Svaradarajan Tariq Ali Tariq Rahman’s Website Uri Avnery…
The Intercept: Moderating Panel Discussion On Investigative Journalism, Accountability
I moderated this event last week organised by the center that I direct – Park Center for Indepenent Media – and the Finger Lakes…
International Newsletter ‘The Story’ Gives Naya Daur A Warm Shoutout
Laxmi Murthi writes about the new space in Pakistani journalism created by Naya Daur, a new media portal that upholds diversity of opinion and…
Media continues to suffer crackdown as political parties look the other way
وزیر اطلاعات فواد چوہدری نے حال ہی میں سوشل میڈیا پر کریک ڈاؤن کا اعلان کیا ہے۔ اس اعلان کے بعد ایف آئی اے…
Reporters Without Borders Q and A
Raza Rumi talks about threat to press freedom across the Globe. Rumi asserts that the expanded power of Media always threatens the governments because…
Free Press, Foreign Journalists: Conversation about free speech outside the U.S.
Panelists, from right: Raza Ahmad Rumi, director of Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College and an editor of the Daily Times English-language…
Introducing Barandon Smith at Ithaca College
Smith has been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast and other publications and won the Izzy Award with activist Jamie Kalven in…
Story of a brutal, cold-blooded murder
Jamal Khashoggi entered Saudi Consulate in Turkey and never returned! Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate on October 2, while his fiancè waited outside. The…
Pakistan’s journalists under siege – my interview
Recently I talked with ” ABC news” (Australia) and explained how Journalism is under siege in Pakistan. Here is the audio-link. The transcript of…
Pakistani Media Under Attack
My interview with Robert Mackey from the New York Times. The Pakistani journalist Raza Rumi survived an assassination attempt in March that killed his…
Reporting in Pakistan – My talk
I spoke at the New America Foundation with Kati Marton, Peter Bergen and Joel Simon on the dangers of reporting freely in Pakistan. It…
Pakistan: Media Freedoms and Judicial Accountability
Media freedoms in Pakistan are no longer a cause of celebration. Recent events have shown that journalists are facing pressure from all sides. Historically,…
The most Dangerous Place for Journalists (a short interview)
I was interviewed in Karachi last month; here is the intro and the link- Recently, the journalist Saleem Shahzad has been killed in Pakistan…
Pakistan media: Through the looking glass
It is ironic that the electronic media which played a major role in the movement against a military dictatorship is now being cited as…
Farewell Haqqani Saheb – forgive your peers and colleagues
A personal favourite, Irshad Ahmad Haqqani is dead. This is a huge loss to Urdu journalism as he was the last of sane voices…
Fair and accurate journalism
A friend asks: “Are we going to see this article splattered all over the front pages of major American newspapers? I highly doubt it.…
Hazrat Ali’s letter – testament of human rights and equality
Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth Caliph and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, wrote a long letter of guidance after appointing Maalik al-Ashtar to…
Hillary’s Mystery Woman – Huma Abedin
I am grateful to Nabeela Apa – our dear friend – for sending the link to this story published in the New York Observer.…