Press Releases 2007
U.S. Embassy’s Two-Day Journalism Training Workshop On Election Reporting Concludes
11/06/2007
Islamabad – The Press Attaché of the U.S. Embassy, Elizabeth O. Colton,
today highlighted the importance of “a constructive role of media” in
encouraging “free and fair elections.”
“Any extreme and
unreasonable curbs on a free media are clearly not in Pakistan's best
interest, and contradict the progress Pakistan has made toward becoming
a fully democratic society,” said the American diplomat while speaking
at the concluding ceremony of the two-day journalism workshop on
“covering local and national elections” here.
The U.S. Embassy
is hosting a series of workshops throughout the country from Oct 28
through November 9 on the subject of election coverage for the
Pakistani journalists. Veteran U.S. journalist and author Arnold R.
Isaacs is running these workshops.
“Journalism is challenging in
all societies,” Embassy’s Press Attaché Colton said. “There is need to
encourage professionalism among new journalists by way of offering
training in best practices of fair and accurate and balanced reporting.”
Speaking
on the occasion, trainer Arnold R. Isaacs said that the role of a free
press in a democratic society has always been essential, but never more
so than when covering elections.
Later, Press Attache Colton
distributed certificates among the over twenty journalists belonging to
different national dailies and wire services who attended the workshop.