{"id":9078,"date":"2020-06-20T18:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=99219"},"modified":"2020-06-20T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:25:50","slug":"jehan-pakistan-sacks-reporters-newsroom-staff-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/jehan-pakistan-sacks-reporters-newsroom-staff-in-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehan Pakistan sacks reporters, newsroom staff in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
ISLAMABAD\u2014Urdu\nnewspaper Jehan Pakistan has fired four reporters and about seven newsroom\nstaffers in Islamabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An insider\ntells JournalismPakistan.com<\/strong> that an administration official\nphoned up the employees on Friday to inform them their termination letters were\nready for collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eight years after\nthe paper rolled off the press, the management now reportedly plans to\nhave only an online edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier in March,\nthe paper terminated about 12 employees, among them reporters and newsroom\nstaff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The managers have\npromised payment of all dues to those sacked on Friday, which includes\nthree-month wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n