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October 12, 2012

The media savvy journalists

Saadia Khalid LEEDS: A proper journalist is expected to have a handful of professional skills. This could include writing, reporting, identifying an issue, digging up facts, being impartial, focused, well connected, resourceful etc. But fast joining that burgeoning list is the need for marketing awareness and scoring points. These days journalists, irrespective of their experience, use increasingly sophisticated marketing skills

Pakistani teen blogger shot by Taliban gunman

(RSF/IFEX) – 11 October 2012 – Two days ago the 14-year-old blogger Malala Yousafzai was shot and wounded in the head and neck by the Pakistan Taliban on her way home from school. A gunman stopped the school bus on which the young activist was travelling and shot her and two other girls whom he had asked to identify her.

Geo independent media

CD shops blown up in Nowshera

NOWSHERA: Unknown miscreants destroyed two CD shops with explosives in Nowshera, and fortunately no casualty was reported, Geo News reported. According to police, unidentified men placed explosives in the CD shops at Pabbi Station Chowk and due to the blast, the shops were completely destroyed while some near by shops were partially damaged. After the incident, police cordoned off the