THE AWARENESS OF PERSONAL AND FAMILY SECURITY IN THE CRISIS REPORTING AND PERFORMANCE OF JOURNALISTS IN KP, PAKISTAN

Sajjad Ali; Noshina Saleem; Khalid Sultan

Sajjad Ali Foundation University Islamabad
Noshina Saleem Institute of Communication Studies University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Khalid Sultan Mass Communication, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan

Keywords: Personal & Family Security Awareness, Media Professionals, Performance, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

Pakistan has been declared as most dangerous country for media
professionals all over the world, like, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is
the riskiest place due to militancy and insurgency. For this purpose,
this research has been conducted to investigate the phenomenon.
The research has been conducted through quantitative methodology,
while survey technique was used for data collection. Questionnaire
was used as data collection tool, while data was collected by simple
random sampling method from three main press clubs of Peshawar,
Swat and Charsadda districts of KP. The results revealed that most
of media professionals have lack of personal and family awareness
due to the lack of training and proper knowledge about crisis and
conflict zones coverage. Results of correlation test significant value
of .000, in regression analysis the value of R is 0.194 which shows
the capacity of relationship and ANOVA analysis significant value
0.000 confirmed that there is strong relationship amid awareness of
personal and family security in crisis reporting and performance of
journalists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.