Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Protecting the Data’ is a comparative analysis of global data protection practices in relation to local proposed legislation

Author: Jannat Ali Kalyar, Salwa Rana
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Misinformation in the Public Eye’ studies public’s perception of misinformation and their ability to identify and push-back misinformation on various mediums.

Authors: Amel Ghani, Sadaf Khan
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Women Journalists and the Double Bind’ examines the factors that push women journalists to limit their professional expression and practice self-censorship. 

Research Team: Aroosa Shaukat, Waqas Naeem
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, with support from Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the study attempts to assess just how deep the ‘information disorder’ goes, how it affects the newsrooms, and how are the journalists and media dealing with it

Authors: Sadaf Khan, Amel Ghani
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Women Disconnected’ examines the impact of the gender digital divide on women in Pakistan during the coronavirus pandemic. The research is based on a survey with 215 women from across Pakistan and a series of in-depth interviews.

Authors: Zoya Rehman, Hija Kamran, Zoha Batool Khan
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, the study looks at the information needs and news consumption behaviour of the Pakistani public during the pandemic.

Author: Waqas Naeem
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, this guidebook is aimed at journalists who want to learn more about they key concepts of digital journalism

Author: Waqas Naeem
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Prepared and Published by Media Matters for Democracy, this white paper outlines the reforms required under Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 in pursuance of civil liberties and fundamental rights

Author: Waqas Naeem

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘A Democratic Fundamental’ presents an overview of all laws governing free speech and expression in Pakistan.

Authors: Noor Ejaz Chaudhary, Omer Imran Malik
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘2019: A Year in Review’ documents and presents some of MMFD’s achievements from 2019, and celebrates the team and their work.

Author: Sarah Zafar
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Data Journalism in the Newsroom’ offers it’s readers a thorough insight into the best practices of data journalism

Author: Waqas Naeem

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Data Journalism in Pakistan’ offers recommendations and resources about data-driven journalism for journalists, news organisations, and media development organisations.

Author: Waqas Naeem

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, this research study explores perceptions of the Internet among male and female Internet users in Pakistan

Authors: Sadaf Khan, Amel Ghani
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, Hostile Bytes studies the nature and extent of online violence and targeted hate campaigns against women journalists in particular, and attempts to demonstrate the potential impact of such violence on women journalists’ professional duties.

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, this guidebook helps Pakistani journalists understand the media-legal-landscape of Pakistan

Authors: Salwa Rana
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by MMFD, Pakistan’s RTI Journey is a homage to the struggles of all the information activists of Pakistan, who led the campaign for access to information

Author: Waqas Naeem
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Association for Progressive Communicate, Unshackling Expression, attempts to map laws that stand to criminalise expression online in Asia. Its a collection of country chapters contributed by APC partners and each of them detailing the local legal framework. Pakistan-chapter is contributed by Media Matters for Democracy.

Authors: Sadaf Khan & Asad Baig

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, the study explores trends and challenges for new entrants and also has a focus on the integration of home-based workforce through tech-based start-ups through its thematic approach.

Authors: Sadaf Khan
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, the ‘RTI Implementation challenge’ is an overview and the analysis of the implementation of the Right to Information Laws in the Federal ICT, Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa 

Author: Waqas Naeem
Designer: Aniqa Haider

The report carefully analyses the implementation of the Prevention against Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), which came into force in 2016, and documents and highlights the bottlenecks and abuses of power through loopholes and weakness of Pakistan’s criminal justice system.

Authors: Salwa Rana, Sadaf Khan
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Produced by Media Matters for Democracy, this research publication maps the trend of self-censorship among women journalists in Pakistan and practices associated with it. Based on a survey carried out with 54 women journalists across the country, the report addresses key gaps within the censorship through a gendered lens.

Authors: Annam Lodhi, Waqas Naeem
Design: Aniqa Haider

Produced by Media Matters for Democracy, this research publication maps key incidents of curb on the media, and attacks on journalists in the run-up to General Elections 2018 .

Authors: Komal Mughal & Zafar Nizamani
Design: Aniqa Haider

Produced by Media Matters for Democracy, this research publication maps the trend of self-censorship in Pakistan and practices associated with it. Based on a survey carried out with 156 journalists across the country, the report addresses key gaps within the censorship debate.

Authors: Waqas Naeem, Sadaf Khan
Design: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Kya Yae Khabar Durast Hai’ is a guidebook aimed specifically at voters’ education with regards to misinformation and disinformation

Author: Waqas Naeem
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Produced by Media Matters for Democracy, this publication maps the state of digital rights, and human rights online and offline related including free expression, and documents related to landmark events in Pakistan in 2017.

Author: Talal Raza
Design: Aniqa Haider

Produced by Media Matters for Democracy, this bi-annual publication is a component of Digital Rights Monitor and maps the state of digital rights in Pakistan.

Author: Talal Raza
Design: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, ‘Understanding Internet Rights’ is a field guide for journalists to help them report on digital rights and Internet governance issues in a more nuanced manner

Author: Sadaf Khan
Designer: Aniqa Haider

Published by Media Matters for Democracy, this field guide seeks to take journalists through the process of accessing public data through Right to Information laws, all the way to producing data-driven investigative news stories.

Author: Waqas Naeem
Design: Aniqa Haider

Published by DW Akademie, ‘From Data to Journalism’ is a hands-on guide to introduce users to the basics of data journalism