Peace journalism workshop at FCC continues

LAHORE: A three-day Peace Journalism Workshop continued on second day here at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) on Wednesday. The workshop on 'essential debates in peace, balance and harmony in Pakistani journalism: an inclusive approach to audience wellbeing and survival as mainstream journalist' is being organised by the Faculty of Humanities, FCC (A Chartered University), in collaboration with Journalism & Media International Centre (JMIC), OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

On the second day of the workshop, Tarhub Asghar, a multimedia journalist, spoke about doing an audience research before doing any story. She stated, “Digital media is a very good source, but the issue is of verification. There is always another part of the story that you miss on digital media since there is lot of self-motivated stuff and fake news on it.”

Another journalist, Zain Amer, talked about going beyond sensation and mainstream journalism's quest for meaningful reporting in the social media age. Senior journalist Shiraz Hasnat gave a talk on From Employment to Entrepreneurship: Exploring Journalism's Business Models.

He shared that the rise of social media has made it easier and less expensive to launch a media outlet nowadays and ways to build a successful entrepreneurial project.

Dr Alexandra Wake, RMIT, Melbourne shared her insights on professionalism and wellbeing of journalists in a social media-controlled ecosystem through a western perspective. She said, “The intent of online abuse is to belittle, humiliate, shame, induce fear and ultimately discredit reporters; and to undercut public trust in critical journalism and facts.” Journalists, faculty members from media departments of different universities, and postgraduate students from FCCU attended the workshop. The three-day workshop will conclude on Thursday (today).