(d) “Employer” means an individual, organization, media house or news
agency which employees the Journalist or Media practitioner and
such other person who collects and disseminates to consumers, news,
features, comments, photographs, and graphics through any means of
communications;
(e) “Government” means the Government of Sindh;
(f) “harassment” means the harassment of journalists and media
practitioners extends to the issuance of threats, actions, or
communication whether verbal or written, explicit or implied as a
way of censoring, threatening, or coercing a media practitioner;
(g) “Journalist” means any person who is engaged by a newspaper,
magazine, news website or other news broadcast medium (radio and
television, whether terrestrial, satellite, cable, online or offline), or
any person working on a freelance basis for any newspaper,
magazine, news website or other news broadcast medium;
(h) “journalism” means publication of news and information packages,
pictures, recording, writing, modification, reporting, analysis of news
or information regarding local, national or international events, and
of matters of public interest;
(i) “Media practitioner” includes any other person engaged in the
collection, processing and dissemination of information to the public
via any means of mass communication, including cameraperson and
photographers, technical supporting staff, drivers and interpreters,
editors, translators, publishers, broadcasters, printers, and distributors;
(j) “Member” means the Member of the Commission;
(k) “protection” means all those protective measures which Government
may adopt for the protection of Journalists, Media practitioners and
such other persons engaged with Employer guaranteed by the
Constitution or any other law, for the time being in force;
(l) “Schedule” means a Schedule to this Act;
(m) “sexual harassment” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it
under clause (h) of section 2 of the Protection against Harassment of
Women at the Workplace Act, 2010 (Act No.IV of 2010); and
(n) “sources” mean any person or organization that provides information
forming the substance or subject of work undertaken by any journalist
or media practitioner.
PART II
RIGHTS OF LIFE, SAFETY AND SECURITY OF JOURNALISTS AND
OTHER MEDIA PRACTITIONERS
3. (1) Government shall –
(i) take effective steps to ensure that every journalist and media
practitioner’s right to life, safety and security as provided under Article 9
of the Constitution are safeguarded;
Right to life,
safety, and
security.