A chessboard Middle East: Russia’s pawn is Syria
By Lawrence Pintak, Special to The Seattle Times -- (Oct. 17, 2015) MODERN Syria is dead.…
Money, politics, power struggles — Pakistan’s media scandal has it all
By Lawrence Pintak (May 25, 2015) KARACHI, Pakistan — A government raid on the company that is…
Who is killing Pakistan’s educated elite?
By Lawrence Pintak May 23, 2015 KARACHI, Pakistan — “We live in a kingdom of fear, fortified…
How Bob Simon, Brian Williams Present a Parable of the Digital Age
(Feb. 13, 2015) It’s not about you; it’s about the story. That’s what we tell TV…
We Are Not All Charlie Hebdo
(Jan. 18, 2015) It was a good week for American journalism. To state the obvious, there is no…
Media, Policy, and Conflict in Pakistan
(April 25, 2014) -- Pakistan’s raucous and increasingly lethal media sector is exerting a…
Russia’s Grab for Ukraine, Georgia
(Tbilisi, Georgia) Feb. 28, 2014 -- IMAGINE if Washington state residents had been barred from…
J-School Survival Tools
(Nov. 11, 2013) I recently learned that the publisher of a rural daily newspaper in Washington…
Al Jazeera America: Think NPR with pictures (and a little baggage)
(Aug. 26, 2013) Al Jazeera joined the American TV lineup last week with minimal damage to the…
Pakistani Journalism: at the crossroads of Muslim identity, national priorities and journalistic culture
Lawrence Pintak and Syed Javed Nazir (July 2013) FOR FULL ARTICLE WITH CHARTS, VISIT SAGE JOURNAL…
Islam, Identity and Professional Values
(June 2013) Islam is a religion, but it is also a philosophy. An analysis of surveys in the Arab…
Inside the Indonesian Newsroom: The Good, the Bad and the Hopeful
(May 3, 2013) -- Indonesia remains a nation in flux. So, too, its journalism. Fifteen years after…
