Daily Times newspaper has not paid its employees for at least a month. The reporters and staff are suffering but for fear of losing their jobs have been unable to protest.
Dr Rubeena Kidwai wrapping up
In Uncategorized on June 25, 2009 at 5:14 pmDr Rubeena Kidwai tells me she is wrapping up her clinic at the Pakistan Association of Mental Health. The most appropriate reaction is panic – I have three months to become completely non-mad. Can you become codependent on your shrink?
I join SAMAA TV as the website editor
In Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 at 5:07 pmI joined SAMAA TV as its website editor after I left Daily Times. My direct boss is Amir Zia. He used to work at AP and Reuters, I think. He’s worked with Kathy Gannon, known as the Iron Lady in some journalism circles because she’s tough as nails and was the first journo allowed into Afghanistan when the Taliban took over.
I also work with Server Moosavee and Amir Jahangir and an incredibly bright Fatima Akhtar, who is the manager of the Interactive Solutions at SAMAA.
But all of that is by the way. This much I know; the media is changing and we’re trying to keep up. Sometimes I’m reminded of Alvin Toffler’s book Future Shock.
I’m not sure why one should blog at all. Perhaps some people are fascinated in seeing their own words in ‘print’ or somewhere print-like. But don’t you have something to say – have some credible information – to be worth reading?
