Training · Pakistan

Training with Hissan Gul

Hands-on training for newsrooms, universities, NGOs and communications teams across Pakistan, in five fields. Live practice, not lectures — ethics first, method second, tools last.

Two stances, one habit: interrogate the machine, and listen first. Check before you publish; listen before you speak.

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Five fields, each with its own page: what it is, who it is for, the formats, the proof and a two-minute self-check.

For journalists & newsrooms

AI in Journalism

Use AI across the reporting craft — research, transcription, drafting, verification — without giving up the checks. Interrogate the machine, don’t trust it.

For reporters, desk staff, editors and students

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OSINT & Verification

Answer questions from public sources, and doubt what you see before you share it. Public means public — method and ethics, never surveillance.

For reporters, fact-checkers, researchers and students

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For communications teams

Strategic Communication

Build a strategy from what audiences already say — signal before story, evidence before spend, through the 5S pipeline.

For heads of communications and marketing, and their teams

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Audience Analysis

Read who your audience really is — from public data, in their own language — before a rupee of budget moves. A demographic is not an audience.

For marketers, communicators and founders

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Social Listening

Read the public conversation in Urdu, Roman Urdu and English before you publish, speak or spend. The tool is the last thing that matters.

For communications teams and newsroom audience desks

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Also offered on request: Mobile Journalism (MOJO) — reporting, shooting and editing on a phone — and Social Media Strategy built on the Smart Spend Model. Ask about these →

How I train

Live practice over lectures.Every participant performs each step, screen-shared, while I watch — online or in the room. Assessment is a live exit task, not an attendance certificate.

Small cohorts, on purpose.Past fifteen to twenty people, “hands-on” quietly becomes theatre. Cohorts stay small enough for that not to happen.

A follow-up window on every engagement.Skills installed in a workshop decay without supervised use on real work, so support does not end when the session does.

Ethics first, method second, tools last.Delivered in English and Urdu, with Urdu and Roman Urdu testing that imported courses skip.

Who I train

Students.Hands-on workshops in AI, verification and audience skills they can use immediately.

Faculty and administration.Strategy and audience-analysis sessions, particularly where digital engagement and internationalisation are the goal.

Newsrooms.Desk-specific workflows, plus the written policy that sits underneath them.

NGOs and INGOs.Communication and verification training under the same evidence duty, because credibility is a development organisation’s licence to operate.

Questions people ask

Do participants need a technical background?

No. The raw material is curiosity and rigour. Search discipline and verification method are trainable; a technical background is not required for any of the five fields.

Do you train online?

Yes — on the same condition as in person: live practice, not recordings. Screen-shared walkthroughs paired with participant tasks performed live.

What does training cost?

Cost is driven by the number of days, cohort size, customisation to your sector, and the follow-up support included. Tell me the team and the outcome you need, and I’ll quote against it.

How do I book?

Through the contact form. Tell me who the participants are, what they should be able to do afterwards, and your timeframe.

Track record

Previously Head of Digital at Independent Urdu, coordinating an international network of 80+ journalists and contributors across 10+ countries, and lead trainer of the Indy In Campus programme during that time. Workshops delivered for Bahria University students in coordination with the Alumni Liaison Office. Fellow of the International Center for Journalists; completed Google’s Train the Trainer programme under Digital Sahafat.

Tell me the team and the outcome.

I’ll tell you honestly whether training is the right instrument, and what it would take.

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