History
Pajhwok Afghan News agency originally began as a project in 2003, covering the 2003 loya jirga in Kabul, and gradually developed into a daily news source by mid-2004. During its first two years the agency was assisted by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, with initial funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) through the UN's International Organization for Migration. Head of the news agency, Danish Karokhel, expressed a desire to the Office of Transition Initiatives to be independent very early in its formation, which was approved and completed in July 2004 with the local management takeover of PAN in January 2005.
Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) gradually became Afghanistan's largest independent news service by early 2009, The agency began providing continuous coverage across Afghanistan, with reporters or stringers in nearly every Afghan province. PAN is supported by Internews and the Open Society Institute. The agency seems to be running mainly on funds generated with subscription fees, advertisements and selling of news stories to other news agencies around the world.
PAN news agency has made a concerted effort to hire female reporters and editors in a bid to expand the range of women's voices in the Afghan media. Female Afghan journalists face particular challenges in a country where questioning authority is still rare.
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