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LAHORE: If the day

Prominent journalist and media analyst, Adnan Rehmat is dismayed over the closure of monthly Herald and Newsline.

Two respected academics’ book about the genesis and nature of the contemporary crisis in the country’s media is a valuable...

The writer teaches journalism at IBA. IN his guest lecture on objectivity in journalism two years ago, Badar Alam, then editor of Herald, cited two hypothetical examples and asked my students how they would cover them. One: an allegation of harassment at the workplace and two, a protest about missing persons in Balochistan. Did objective reporting mean they would give the same amount of coverage to the woman making the accusation as her boss and similarly, would the protesters get the same repr...