Journalists Association in Pakistan

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“An organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure called association.”

Association:

There’s number of organizations which is working in Pakistan for the security or journalists or journalism one of them is following below;

1) Journalist organization of Pakistan (JOP)

2) Pakistan Press Foundation. (PPF)

3) Pakistan federal union of journalists (PFUJ)

4) Tribal union of journalists (TUJ)

5) Pakistan freelancer journalist association (PFJA)

6) Young journalist association (YJA)

7) Association of Radio Journalists Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

8) Association of Television Journalists

9) Bhakkar Media Journalists Association

10) Crime and Court Reporters Association, Rawalpindi

11) Cultural Journalists Forum, Peshawar

12) Electronic Media Reporters Association (Lahore)

Journalists Organizations:

13) Lahore Economic Journalists Association (LEJA)

14) Sindh Journalists Foundation

15) Rawalpindi Islamabad Sports Journalists Association (RISJA)

16) Sports Journalists Association of Sindh (SJAS)

17) Pakistan Sports Writers Federation

18) Dadu Media Forum

19) Dera Photo Journalists Association

20) Pakistan Media Group

Journalists Organizations:

Introduction:The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) was established in 1967 by the news agency Pakistan Press International and operated until 1974, when it had to suspend operations due to the political environment then prevailing in the country. It was reactivated in 1992 and has since been involved in assisting the development of independent media in Pakistan by conducting training programs for journalists, carrying out projects in research and documentation, and campaigning to defend and promote freedom of the press.

Pakistan Press Foundation:

The PPF collaborates with many local and international organizations:

1) The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE)

2) All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS)

3) Asia Foundation

4) UNESCO

5) Commonwealth Press Union (CPU)

6) Thomson Foundation

7) The British Council

Collaborations with other Organizations:

8) Knight International Foundation

9) National Endowment for Democracy

10) European Union

11) Freedom Forum

12) World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC)

13) Asian Media Information and Communication Centre

14) Council of Asian-Pacific Press Institutes (CAPPI)

15) the Asia-Pacific Communication Network.

Collaborations with other Organizations:

In 1999, the PPF established the PPF-Vicky Zeitlin Media Library and Training Centre, which houses an extensive collection of publications on the media and issues of interest to the Pakistani media. Training workshops and seminars are regularly held at the training centre.

The weekly Review:The PPF is involved in research and documentation on mass communication in Pakistan. The weekly PPF Media Review, in English and Urdu, compiles important news about the media. PPF is also involved in producing manuals and handbooks on journalism in Urdu and Sindhi.

Vicky Zeitlin Media Library and Training Centre

To help raise standards of journalism particularly of the rural press.

To promote freedom of expression in Pakistan and internationally

To encourage research on mass communication in Pakistan. To promote, through the media, greater awareness of social

and development issues. To organizes training programs on press freedom. The works on the rights of journalists and on journalistic

ethics. They work to make the harassment of journalists and news

organizations politically and socially unacceptable. To highlight threats to press freedom in the country. They coordinates financial support for victimized journalists. They organize training programs and seminars on issues

facing the Pakistani media. They provide security to working journalists.

Purpose of Journalists Associations:

o Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts.

o Do not place unnecessary emphasis on personal characteristics, including race, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation etc.

o Do not allow personal interest, or any belief, commitment, payment, gift or benefit, to undermine your accuracy, fairness or independence.

o Do not improperly use a journalistic position for personal gain. o Do not allow advertising or other commercial considerations to undermine

accuracy, fairness or independence.o Do your utmost to ensure disclosure of any direct or indirect payment made

for interviews, pictures, information or stories.o Use fair, responsible and honest means to obtain material. Identify yourself

and your employer before obtaining any interview for publication or broadcast.

o Present pictures and sound which are true and accurate. Any manipulation likely to mislead should be disclosed.

o Do not plagiarize.o Respect private grief and personal privacy.o Do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors.

Journalists Code of Ethics

Bill for Protection of journalists by national assembly

How many journalists killed in Pakistan from 1994 to 2014????

Terrorist attacks on Journalists in PakistanDate Killed Injured

Dec 4,1994 To Dec 21,2014

48 49

Hamid Mir: Unknown gunmen on motorcycles

opened fire on Hamid Mir in Karachi onSaturday, injuring the senior reporter and television anchorperson. The incident took place on Sharae Faisal near Natha Khan area when the gunmen

opened fire on his vehicle around 5:30pm.

Famous attack on diff journalists in Pakistan

Wali Khan Babar, a reporter working for Geo News, was gunned down in a targeted attack on Thursday night in Liaqatabad. Babar, 29, was the first reporter to die in the line of duty in Pakistan in 2011.

Wali Khan Baber

Theory of social work:

“The work done by someone who works for a government or private organization that helps people who have financial or family problems called social work”

Definition:

What is the need of social work? How social work is carried out? To whom social work is going to serve?

What is social work?????

To answer these questions we need to know; Why people are suffering? What is our responsibilities towards fellow human beings? How we gain knowledge about human problems?

Need to know:

helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being.

It aims to help people develop their skills and their ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems.

Social work is concerned with individual and personal problems like poverty, unemployment and domestic violence etc.

Role of Social theory in practical life:

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