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Article: Need for conducive environment to promote investigative journalism stressed.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- June 15, 2005
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Lahore, June 15 (PPI): Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) president and editor of local English daily, Arif Nizami Wednesday stressed for providing conducive environment to promote investigative journalism in Pakistan.Delivering lecture on final day of four-day training workshop on "Investigative Journalism" organized by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) here at a local hotel, he claimed that state-coercive mechanism was not only intact but was being used with full force whenever the government feels to do so. "Government and its agencies often use carrot and stick policy to curb freedom of press while advertisements and press advice is another major ...