Author Archives: Press Partners

  By Arshad Dogar  A number of people ask me about the difference between journalism in America compared to Pakistan.  A major difference is the U.S. system of open records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). enacted in 1966. ...

By Sahar Majid The U.S. system of open records is an effective way to create transparency by providing information to  journalists and the public. This data makes a journalist’s work easier, saves his time and energy and also provides the ...

 BY DANIEL PEARL FELLOW ASMA GHRIBI  I had heard and read about the U.S. system of open records, but only during my experience at the Wall Street Journal, did I experience it firsthand. I spent the first few months of ...

BY HARRY MISIKO I appreciate why American media digs deeper and offers more to its readers, listeners and viewers compared to Kenyan and African news channels. U.S. federal and state governments have enacted laws that do not only promote but ...

BY DANIEL PEARL FELLOW SHERIF TAREK The more open public records are, the easier it is for journalists to produce good stories. Statistics and numbers are crucially important to many stories. To prove that a crime rate has soared, for ...

    BY ARSHAD DOGAR The media landscape has been changing so rapidly in the developed world that journalists working in developing countries also need to adopt those innovations.  Recently, I visited a barber’s shop in Pittsburgh for a haircut. ...

BY NASTYA FORINA August 1st was a big day for the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper launched its new website.  With the change, the Tribune hopes to increase online readership and advertising.  The Tribune’s team of news-application developers have been creating ...

BY SAHAR MAJID     Journalism is not just about gathering facts, covering news, writing stories and editing; it’s a lot more now that innovative tools allow us to dig deeper and illustrate stories in several media. I learned about ...