A two-day training workshop for new and mid-career journalists organized by Pakistan Information Center, a special project of Press Information Department (PID), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting concluded on Thursday. This workshop was held at the Information Service Academy Islamabad. The theme of this training workshop was “News Authenticity and Tools to Counter the Fake News & Anti-State Propaganda”. The main objective of the workshop was to enlighten the participants on the need and importance of countering fake news and negative propaganda. This two-day training workshop was inaugurated by Federal Secretary Information and Broadcasting Ms. Shahira Shahid a day earlier. On the second day of workshop, in the first session, Khyber TV Director Hassan Khan gave a detailed presentation to the participants about information warfare and propaganda tools and countering propaganda and answered the questions of the participants of the training workshop. This was followed by the second session. Former Director General of Radio Pakistan, Murtaza Solangi, highlighted the importance of verifying of facts and figures before publication of the news story. He told the participants about the strategy to counter the propaganda against the state. The third session of the Training Workshop was conducted by the Director General of Information Service Academy, Saeed Ahmed Sheikh. He informed the participants about the need and importance of true news and keeping the national interests in mind while filing the news stories. On the occasion, Project Director, Pakistan Information Center Muhammad Saghir Ahmad Wattoo while addressing to the participants, highlighted the importance of this training workshop and thanked all guest speakers and participants for showing their keen interest during the event. At the end of the workshop, Chief Guest Executive Director General Information Service Academy Syed Mubasher Toqeer Shah and President of National Press Club Anwar Raza distributed certificates among all the participants of this two-day Training Workshop. Later he presented commemorative shields to the guest speakers. On this occasion, commemorative shields were also presented to Executive Director General Information Service Academy Syed Mubasher Toqeer Shah and President of National Press Club Anwar Raza. The participants of the workshop appreciated the training workshop organized by Pakistan Information Center which is a special initiative of the Press Information Department, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The participants emphasized the need to continue the series of such training workshops on important subjects in future also. It is worth mentioning here that on the first day of the training workshop, renowned and senior journalists Azaz Syed and Talat Hussain conducted the sessions and shared their expertise and experience with the participants of the training.
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