KUT News director Emily Donahue is with nine other reporters on a trip organized by the
Pakistan鈥檚 modern media outlets were launched in 2002 with the establishment of PEMRA (). Since then roughly 2,500 media licenses have been granted.
There are 85 TV channels. Twenty of them are news. The vast majority of programming is delivered by cable with no subscription fees. Everyone we鈥檝e spoken to 鈥� from government ministers to ordinary citizens and journalists -- says the media is playing a crucial role in developing Pakistan鈥檚 democracy.
But the news is not an easy profession here. More than 70 journalists have been killed covering politics, the war, and the government. And hundreds more have received death threats, from security forces, terrorist groups, extremists and the Taliban.
You can see in the photo above what security looks like outside , Pakistan's largest TV channel.
