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MCOM 101 Presentation. Hamza Islam Butt (14-10901). Comparison of National/International Newspapers. New York Times. Founded in 1851 and has since been continuously been published USA Has an international version called the International Herald Tribune

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  1. MCOM 101 Presentation Hamza Islam Butt (14-10901)

  2. Comparison of National/International Newspapers

  3. New York Times • Founded in 1851 and has since been continuously been published • USA • Has an international version called the International Herald Tribune • Won various international awards/ great international coverage (112 Pulitzer prizes) • 3rd largest newspaper (afterUSA Today and The Wall Street Journal

  4. Dawn News • Founded by M.A. Jinnah in 1942 • Pakistan’s oldest and most widely read English Newspaper

  5. Fonts Dawn News New York Times Use normal Times New Roman (TNR) fonts TNR fonts, sometimes headings/subheadings italicized

  6. Front page Layout Dawn News New York Times There are advertisements flanking the two sides of the Mast Head. No advertisements are present on the sides of Mast Head The layout is different in the organization of pictures/news columns More story pictures

  7. Language Dawn News New York Times English is the medium of communication though sometimes Urdu words are given in inverted commas to elucidate concepts. Relatively simple language used English is the medium of communication. It is grammatically more complex than the counterpart and uses a wider vocabulary

  8. List of Contents Dawn News New York Times Usually a list of contents within the paper is given at the bottom corners of the frontpage (in boxes) List of contents is not given on the bottom corners of the front page.

  9. Type of News Dawn News New York Times Usually hard news is given related to economy or politics on the front page Front page sometimes contains news relating to sports and entertainment in addition to hard news

  10. Structural Organization Dawn News New York Times (3 sections) Front page (highlights) Pg2-5 (National) Pg 6-7 Editorial Pg 8. Adverts Pg 9-11 business Pg 12-14 international Metropolitan (separate section for local city news, sports and entertainment) News: Includes International, National, Washington, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, The Metro Section, Education, Weather, and Obituaries. Opinion: Includes Editorials, Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor. Features: Includes Arts, Movies, Theater, Travel, NYC Guide, Dining & Wine, Home & Garden, Fashion & Style, 

  11. 152 Bangladeshi Border Guards Get Death Penalty Over Revolt DHAKA, Bangladesh — In an apparently unprecedented ruling, 152 former members of the Bangladesh Rifles, a paramilitary border security force, were sentenced to death on Tuesday in connection with a bloody 2009 mutiny in which several thousand troops took control of their headquarters, demanding better working conditions, and killed scores of people. Some of the border guards broke down in tears after hearing their sentence, pronounced by Judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman in a crowded Dhaka courtroom under heavy security, and others shouted at the judge, saying the verdict was unfair. “Allah will deliver justice of this injustice,” they said. Judge Akhtaruzzaman said the testimony of some witnesses who described the blood bath was hair-raising. “The slain people were not merely killed,” he said. “The dead bodies did not get the respect they deserve according to the law.” The mutiny began suddenly, at an annual conference of the border force, as a number of guards took their commanders, officers of the Bangladeshi Army, hostage. As soldiers massed around the building, the border guards announced a list of demands, among them better pay, permission to participate in lucrative United Nations peacekeeping missions, and changes in the force’s command and control structure. The revolt sprang from the border guards’ longstanding jealousy of regular army troops, who had better quarters and pay. After the mutiny, the force, which guards the 2,500-mile border with India and Myanmar, was renamed the Border Guard Bangladesh. The revolt collapsed 33 hours later, after army tanks surrounded the border guards’ headquarters in the heart of this crowded capital. As the uprising ended, many border guards reportedly shed their uniforms and fled the site, while security forces combed the area for fugitives. Police officers entering the building found a mass grave containing the bodies of officers in combat fatigues who had been seized as hostages. Seventy-four people were killed in the uprising, including 57 top-ranking and midranking army officers. The rest were civilians. The mutiny posed a stark test for the country’s leadership, elected after two years of army-backed emergency rule. Rights advocates said they could not recall a time when so many defendants were sentenced to the death penalty in one single court proceeding. They were particularly struck by both the severity and the scope of the punishment in a country that has an established legal system and is not in a state of war. “It’s possible that there’s some civil war situation where this might have happened, but there’s nobody who’s thought of it,” said Brad Adams, the executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division. “We can’t think of anything like it.” Prosecutors originally brought charges against 850 people — 827 men serving in the Bangladesh Rifles and 23 civilians — but 277 were acquitted on Tuesday in the mass trial, which began in August 2011. Of those convicted, 256 were given sentences of 20 years or less and 161, including Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, a former opposition member of Parliament, were sentenced to life in prison. Four of the accused died during the course of the trial. Defense lawyers said they would appeal, but relatives of the commanders killed applauded the sentences. “We can’t be satisfied until the verdict is implemented,” said NehreenFerdousi, the widow of one slain officer, Col. MujibulHuq. Bangladesh has been one of the least frequent users of the death penalty in countries that still have capital punishment, according to Amnesty International. If all the defendants sentenced to death on Tuesday are executed, Bangladesh would rocket to third place in Amnesty’s annual ranking of death penalty countries, surpassing Iraq, but still below Iran and China. Julfikar Ali Manik reported from Dhaka, and Ellen Barry from New Delhi. Rick Gladstone contributed reporting from New York.

  12. Bangladesh court sentences 152 to death for 2009 mutiny A court in Dhaka awarded death to 152 including Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) deputy assistant director Towhidul Islam and life-term to 160 including former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and ward-level Awami League leader Torab Ali for their role in the February 2009 carnage at then BDR headquarters. Earlier this morning, 813 people detained in the mutiny case were produced before the makeshift court at Bakshibazar in the capital. Besides, the 10 more accused who are on bail also appeared before the Court of Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s, Dhaka. Three others accused – ZohoraKhatun, Abdus Salam and RunaAkhtarBithi – who had also granted bail in the case could not appear before the court due to the ongoing 60-hour strike of the BNP-led 18-party opposition combine. Several contingents of security men guarded the detained accused including BNP leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu to the court around 10:00 in the morning. Judge MdAkhtaruzzaman started reading out the verdict around 12:30pm. Security has been beefed up on the court premises and its adjacent areas following the pronouncement of the verdict. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed and nearly 20 persons from the victim army officials’ family came to the court to attend today’s trial. In the February 2009 mutiny, 74 people including 57 top and mid-ranking army officers were killed by the rebel BDR personnel. The border guard members also looted arms and ammunition from armouries during the 33-hour bloodbath at the Pilkhana headquarters of the erstwhile BDR (now Border Guard Bangladesh, BGB,) on February 25-26. The killers later dumped the victims’ bodies in sewers and shallow graves, looted officers’ houses and held their family members hostage at gunpoint. A total of 850 people including 823 BDR jawans and 23 civilians were accused in the case. Among the accused are BNP leader Pintu, city ward unit Awami League leader Torab Ali and the then BDR deputy assistant director Mohammad Towhidul Islam. Of the accused, 813 are detained, 13 are on bail, 20 are on the run while four have died in custody. Earlier, the verdict was scheduled to be delivered on October 30. Judge MdAkhtaruzzaman deferred the date today for delivery of the verdict as he required some more time to prepare the judgement after reading around 10,000 pages containing depositions of 654 witnesses and their cross-examinations. By arrangment with the The Daily Star/ANN

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