News:Pakistani journalists' performance hailed
Name of NewsPaper: National Herald (Tribune)
Date of Publication: Sunday, June 24, 2007
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ISLAMABAD, June 22: Pakistan made an impressive presence at the Fourth Innovation Journalism Conference at the Stanford University, held in USA thus becoming the first developing country to introduce an Innovation Journalism Program for its citizens.

Represented by a USAlDfunded delegation was comprising Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF) officials and journalists. The Conference focused how innovation is changing the profession and business of journalism. The Pakistani delegation was led by Amir Jahangir, Consultant with the CSF.

Amir Jahangir of CSF, Zamir Haider, Dr David Nordfors, Senior Research Scholar -Innovation journalism, Sadia Fazal and member of the Innovation Journalism delegation from Jordan during 4th Innovation Journalism Conference at Stanford University

The Pakistani delegation made a presentation on the road map for the Innovation Journalism in Pakistan, which was greatly appreciated.

Delegations from Slovenia and Jordan showed keen interest in learning from the Pakistani model.

Pakistani Fellows attending the Innovation Journalism Programme at the Stanford University also made presentations in the special sessions.

The conference also helped build the capacity of the journalists on the nine pillars of the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum.-APP