SAMSN Blog
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11 May 2016
Woman Journalist Attacked by Interviewee
By Tanushree Gangopadhyay
Violence has become pervasive in India during the past few years. Several cases of violence, rape and gang rape have filled up media pages. Media persons too have been targeted violently, most often vindictively. Recently a senior media woman Revati ...
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05 May 2016
Press freedom in Pakistan
By Iqbal Khattak
Two incidents — one involving a media office in Islamabad and the other a seasoned journalist in Peshawar — in the span of little over a month, earlier this year, offered a glimpse into where the media and its practitioners stand today on the fre...
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27 Apr 2016
Where Bangladesh is heading?
By Sam Jahan
Bangladesh is probably passing through one of its most fragile hours since its inception by walking in a pitch-black tunnel with no ray of light to be seen on either sides. After a brief period of continuous assassinations of foreigners, progressive ...
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31 Mar 2016
Trauma and Journalism Training after Earthquake Experience
By Sudarshan Khatiwada
On April 25, 2015, I was one among a thousand people at the Academy Hall, Kathmandu enjoying a dance on the national song. The chief guest of the program was the then Speaker Subas Nemwang and the program was just about to become formal when the eart...
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07 Mar 2016
Geo making the workplace safer
By Lubna Jerar Naqvi
The importance of a safe working environment cannot be emphasized enough, especially with a larger number of women joining the work force. It is imperative that organizations take serious steps to protect women employees so that they can concentrate ...
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04 Mar 2016
Protection for journalists needed as South Asia remains perilously dangerous
By Ujjwal Acharya
On February 5, 2016, UNESCO, the IFJ and the WAN-IFRA organized a conference ‘News Organisations Standing Up for the Safety of Media Professionals‘ at its headquarters with an aim of strengthening the safety of journalists globally by wor...
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25 Feb 2016
Delhi’s two black days of terror on the press
By S. K. Pande
Visualize this. For two days, journalists covering news within the premises of the Patiala House Courts in Delhi were repeatedly attacked. They were targeted; and their mobile phones and tablets grabbed and smashed. Women journalists were among those...
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24 Feb 2016
Against all odds: Reporting from the Maldives
By Mohamed Junayd A. Saleem
Harassed, arrested, prosecuted and even violently attacked, journalism has never seen such gloomy days in Maldives since an iron clad monopoly on Freedom of Speech and Expression, and Freedom of the Media was released from its shackles in the late 20...
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17 Feb 2016
Forgetting the basics
By Sam Jahan
“Be the best wherever you go,” this six-word sentence from him, I’m sure, will remain in my memories even if I forcefully bump my head on an oak tree! I spent little over a couple of years working under Mahfuz Anam, the tall and bol...
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03 Feb 2016
Dangers of reporting in Pakistan’s tribal areas
By Roohan Ahmed
Senior Tribal journalist and former president of Tribal Union of Journalists Zaman Mehsud was shot and killed a day after Pakistani journalists observed International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists in November, 2015. [Since Mehsud...