Abstract
The journalistic life in Pakistan is always on high risk as
journalists are shot dead, tortured and stabbed during the course of
duty. Almost all stakeholders of society remain mum over grave
situation in a context wherein journalists are helpless, ill equipped
and insecure, especially job satisfaction is a major concern. The
number of affected journalists especially the death toll is rising
with each passing day. This study is aimed to investigate the
phenomenon and ascertain reasons why journalists are under
constant threat in Pakistan? In-spite of hundreds of incidents
targeting the media officials, no dedicated study to understand the
threat perception and a response thereto has been conducted at any
level in Pakistan yet. Accordingly, in order to collect data the
reliance regarding data collection for this study has been made on
press clippings, government reportsand other available
information with the approach of content analysis. Albeit, this is
an embryonic effort to identify the issues and challenges posing
threat to working journalists but it will further pave the way to
understand the complexity of issue in the times to come. The study
can be expanded further basing on the preliminary study, a
comprehensive and workable plan can be orchestrated for the
safety and security of not only the media officials but also of
media houses in Pakistan in future by promising researchers.
Taimoor-Ul-Hassan , Liaqat Ali Malik , Jam Sajjad Hussain. (2020) Crime against Media Personnel and Threats to Media Houses in Pakistan: A Journalistic Perspective, Journal of Pakistan Vision, Volume 21, Issue 1.
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