After Daewoo and K-Electric, why is AsiaPak interested in Bol News?
There is only one reason to buy a television channel in this day and age: influence. But could Bol’s baggage be too much to handle?
Inside the digital media newsrooms of Pakistan
With more than half of the population’s access to the internet, the digital landscape is fertile soil not just for information and narrative-building, but also for business
The war for scraps
Already punch-drunk from censorship and changing times, a large crack has appeared within the print media industry over the most important issue there is — money
Jabbar Thaikaydar, the man who introduced money making in Pakistani media
In the early 1980s, as he carried banners of the Lakson Tobacco Company on his motorbike through the dusty roads of Lahore,...
What in the world happened with the PSL media rights bid?Â
On the 23rd of December, Geo and ARY found themselves sitting across a table with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the...
Everything standing between the PCB and a women’s PSL
With the deck already stacked against them, advertisers and marketers cannot seem to look beyond a lack of players - something that would be fixed by such a tournament
As Samaa drowns in losses, Aleem Khan offers to buy the channel
The story of Samaa will eventually be the story of every news channel in Pakistan
Media Times, the Taseer-owned media conglomerate, is still struggling
The company says that it plans to reinvent itself. Will the Taseers walk the talk?
How a 30 year old became a media tycoon
Deep into the winding, messy streets of a Lahore township, on one end of a broken road stands a building five stories...
Media Wars
Traditional news organisations are caught between many a devil and a deep blue sea: Fake news, social media, ever falling revenues combined making it an uphill task to keep their heads above water