Arif Rana of the Express Group won the award for best investigative journalist. From The Express Tribune, Ali Usman bagged the award for human rights reporting, Asad Kharal on media ethics and Fazal Khaliq for reporting on gender issues.
The Agahi Awards are organised by an NGO - Mishal Pakistan, in collaboration with press clubs across the country, local and international media development bodies, regulatory authorities, the private sector and other stakeholders.
In the people’s choice category the award for the most Favourite Current Affairs Anchor and News Channel went to Hamid Mir of Capital Talk and GEO News of the Jang Group.
Haroon Baloch of Rohi TV bagged three awards. Puruesh Chaudhary, President for AGAHI, said that the initiative was launched as an effort to raise the standards of journalism in the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2012.
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The Agahi Awards were designed to encourage professionalism in journalism, they were based on the basis of a strict judging criteria developed in collaboration with the Center for International Media Ethics (CIME) and on UNESCO's pillars of Media Development Indicators.
The award in the category of Education was won by Saadia Khalid of The News International on her story on the devolution of Higher Education in Pakistan. Her story forced the policy makers in correcting policy decision on Educational reforms.
Fewer winners in the awards only indicates lack of opportunities and active participation of women in Pakistan in journalism. Please refer to the Global Gender Gap index of the World Economic Forum and you will learn that this trend is not limited to journalism only, instead it is spread across all sectors in Pakistan's socio-economic portfolios.
lets think how we can encourage media diversity, both in workforce and content development.
Gender discrimination continues as always.There were no awards given to female journalists in any of the prominent categories.Women are always treated as second class citizens in the professional world.