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Video: Editor Zaffar Abbas on the dangers of journalism in Pakistan

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Video: Editor Zaffar Abbas on the dangers of journalism in Pakistan

Zaffar Abbas is Editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s most prestigious English language newspaper. His career includes a 16-year stint for the BBC as one of its Pakistan correspondents.

In this video from the World Editors Forum in Bangkok he explains the importance of journalist safety in a country where "in the last 13 years more than 85 journalists have been killed and many more injured or abducted".

 

 

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2013-06-07 09:55

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The 71st World News Media Congress, the 26th World Editors Forum and the 3rd Women in News Summit took place from 1 - 3 June 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland.

In this blog, WAN-IFRA provides previews, interviews, summaries of the presentations and other useful information about the Congress.

Participants were also very active on Twitter throughout the event under the hashtag #wnmc19.

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