Pajhwok Afghan News
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Pajhwok Afghan News
| Country | Afghanistan |
|---|---|
| Founded |
March 2004 |
| Key people | Danish Karokhel Farida Nekzad |
| Official website | http://www.Pajhwok.com |
Pajhwok Afghan News (Pashto: پژواک خبري اژانس - PAN) (Persian: آژانس خبرى پژواک) is a news agency established in March 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.[1][2] [3] It is Afghanistan's largest independent news service,[4] providing broad-based coverage of news in English, Pashto and Dari.[5] The agency provides continuous coverage across Afghanistan, with reporters or stringers in nearly every Afghan province.[6][7]
PAN's director, Danish Karokhel, won the 2008 CPJ International Press Freedom Award. PAN's co-founder[8] and then-deputy director, Farida Nekzad, won the 2008 International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award.[9]
The agency is supported by Internews[10] and the Open Society Institute,[1] with initial funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) through the UN's International Organization for Migration.[11] The agency expressed a desire to the Office of Transition Initiatives[2] to be independent very early in its formation and this was approved and completed in July 2004 with the local management takeover of PAN in January 2005.[1]
Pajhwok has made a concerted effort to hire female reporters and editors in a bid to expand the range of women's voices in the Afghan media. Female Afghan journalists face particular challenges in a country where questioning authority is still rare.[12] Pajhwok, a Pashto word[13], meaning reflection or echo in both Pashto and Dari.[5][14]
Notes
- ^ a b c "Pajhwok Afghan News". International Center for Journalists. https://www.ijnet.org/gfmd/mdo/Pajhwok_Afghan_News. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ^ a b http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/working_papers/2005_06_rohde.pdf
- ^ http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/untold-stories/afghanistan-journalism-pajhwok-afghan-news-taliban
- ^ "Afghan turmoil". Thomson Reuters Foundation (Alert Net). 25 March 2009. http://www.alertnet.org/db/crisisprofiles/AF_REC.htm?v=links.
- ^ a b http://www.pajhwok.com/about2.asp
- ^ http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/asia/lost-translation-telling-afghan-stories-west
- ^ "Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad, Director and Deputy Director, Pajhwok Afghan News". Committee to Protection of Journalists. http://cpj.org/awards/2008/kar-nek.php. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ^ "Farida Nekzad". BBC Radio 4. 9 Dec 2008. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2008_50_tue.shtml.
- ^ "Farida Nekzad, Afghanistan". International Women's Media Foundation. http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=724&c=cijwinner. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ^ "Internews Afghanistan". http://www.internews.org/bulletin/afghanistan/Afghan_200805.html. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
- ^ http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/untold-stories/afghanistan-journalism-pajhwok-afghan-news-taliban
- ^ Gezari, Vanessa (January 23, 2011). "Afghan reporter tells her story". St. Petersburg Times (KABUL, Afghanistan). http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/breaking-news-and-making-news/1146780. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ http://www.qamosona.com
- ^ http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/ScannedAccounts/Ends01%5C0001027201_AC_20041231_E_C.pdf
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