Pakistan Information Network
Pakistan Information Network
Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 19:11The Pakistan Information Network (PIN) is a partnership initiative between America Abroad Media (AAM) and three of Pakistan’s leading television networks: Express News, Dunya TV, and ARY TV. The partnership began in 2010 with the establishment of Express and Dunya’s first and only U.S. news bureaus at AAM’s headquarters in Washington, DC. PIN has since expanded to include a range of co-produced news, documentaries, town halls and entertainment programming for broadcast on Pakistani television.
Socially Responsible Entertainment: PIN recently produced a 12-part road show documentary series hosted by Reema Khan, one of Pakistan's most famous entertainment personalities who recently became a resident of the U.S. The TV series follows Reema as she sets out to discover her new country through the eyes of the average Pakistani, testing stereotypes about life in the U.S. and exploring what it means to be an American.
Click here to watch the series, and view a preview below.
Afghanistan-Pakistan town hall series: In collaboration with AAM’s Afghan Media Productions (AMP), PIN is producing a groundbreaking series of international town halls connecting audiences, experts and government officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan for in-depth discussion about the way forward for the two nations as the U.S. prepares to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2014, as well as the role Pakistan should play in the reconciliation process.
Check out the video below and learn more here.
Educational Documentaries: The PIN team recently partnered with an Emmy-winning filmmaker to produce a feature length documentary on the 2012 U.S. presidential election for a Pakistani audience. Through in-depth interviews, historical analysis and archival footage, the documentary explores the American democratic process and the manner in which Americans elect their leaders.
You can watch the documentary in Urdu by clicking on the playlist below.
24-Hour News Coverage: In April 2010, AAM established the first and only U.S. news bureaus for Dunya TV and Express News. Two all-Pakistani teams of journalists moved to Washington to run the bureaus for the next two years out of AAM’s headquarters, where they produced daily news and feature reports from around the U.S. for broadcast on their networks in Pakistan. By the close of the news bureau initiative in January 2013, the PIN correspondents had produced nearly 1,000 TV news reports and broadcasts for Pakistani television, and over 600 digital and newspaper print articles. Today, the Express and Dunya correspondents remain in Washington and continue to independently produce news reports and other content for their home networks.
To watch news reports from Dunya TV, follow this link »
To watch news reports from Express TV, follow this link »
PIN Journalism Fellows: PIN brings journalists from Dunya and Express to Washington for fellowships, where they produce programming for broadcast in Pakistan - including live weekly talk shows, interviews with high-level U.S. officials, and news documentaries on Pakistani communities in the U.S. Fellows also participate in think tank events, give presentations, and hold meetings with leading U.S. policy experts, expanding their networks while providing the Washington foreign policy community with insight on the state of Pakistani media and politics.