Online journalism in Pakistan
DESPITE taking roots in a number of countries of the world including neighboring India, Internet Journalism is a new term for most Pakistanis, even for the majority of those half a million who use the magic tool of internet.
With very few web-based newspapers, news portals and news agencies, Pakistan has yet to take benefit from the information explosion and the advent of Cyber journalism in the world.
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's decision to declare a state of emergency in my home country. In this post, I will set aside political commentary and restrict my comments here to the role that news media and new media are playing in the national crisis. Musharraf demanded that all cable operators stop beaming the broadcasts of all local and foreign new channels, except those of the state-owned Pakistan Television. Nearly 30 channels were promptly taken off the air. Now numbers of Television Channel have started Online TV chahhel.
Despite all this anti-emergency activity online, Pakistanis both in the country and across the diaspora are hungry to hear their favorite news anchors and broadcast journalists weigh in on events as they unfold. BBC News Online describes how satellite dishes that can still receive transmission signals from private news channels that have been blacked out by cable operators are selling like "hotcakes." Blocked news channels such as Geo TV and Aaj TV are also live streaming their coverage in both audio and visual formats or in the form of Youtube video clips so that citizens with Internet access continue to enjoy uninterrupted news reporting. In other words, Pakistanis on the right side of the digital divide have not been affected by Musharraf's decision to black out news channels.
I think now media in Pakistan is also move towards Interactivity or New Media.
Some of them ;
Syed Noman Ahmed
Birmingham City University
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