Fitraak News
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| Founded | June 4, 2015 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters |
Jinnah Ave, Block L Islamabad, ISB 44000, Pakistan[1] |
| Area served | International |
| Founder(s) | Waseem Tarar |
| Key people |
Waseem Tarar (President & Editor-in-Chief)[2] Aftab Ahmed (Managing Editor) Salman Abid (Editor) |
| Owner | Tarar Media Ltd. |
| Slogan(s) | "Credible, Reliable, Responsible" |
| Website |
fitraaknews |
| Alexa rank |
 2,981 (Pakistan) April 2016[3] |
| Type of site | News Aggregator |
| Advertising | Google, Taboola |
| Available in | Urdu |
| Launched | August 14, 2015 |
| Current status | Active |
Fitraak News (Urdu: فتراک نیوز) is a Pakistan-based politically liberal online news aggregator founded by renown Pakistani Journalist Waseem Tarar and owned by Tarar Media Corporation.[2] The site offers news, satire, and original content and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news of Pakistan.[4] Fitraak News was launched on August 14, 2015 with the aim of bringing a revolutionary change in digital media industry of Pakistan and alternative to news aggregators such as the Urdu Point.[5] In 2015, Fitraak News became the first commercially run Pakistan digital media enterprise to introduce high definition HD online news services.
Fitraak News has more than 10 million Pageviews monthly.[6] In September 2015 one month after launching Fitraak News was ranked #1 on the top 10 fastest growing news aggregators of Pakistan list by Social Bakers, which bases its list on different elements and factors including each site's Alexa Global Traffic Rank.[7]
History
Fitraak News was founded by Waseem Tarar in June 4, 2015 and launched on August 14, 2015. It has an active community, with over 10 million people monthly and each person stay more than 7 mints on the site.
Prior to Fitraak News, Tarar launched an aggregator in December 2014 known as W News which was banned by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) due to unknown reasons.
After this Fitraak News was launched in August 14, 2015.
Influence
According to company, the site has more than ten million page visits monthly. An independent report says, "Fitraak News coverage affects the Pakistani online and traditional media's political coverage ". A former media adviser to Pervez Musharraf, said that he checked the site 30–40 times per day.
Controversies
Before launching, Fitraak News was targeted by some elements to defame it by continuous propaganda. There were rumors in Social Media that a Pakistani Billionaire Malik Riaz Hussain is going to invest in it[4] but at June 4, 2015 Hamid Mir deny this news and says that he has informed his reader by his columns that all Facebook accounts under his name are not authentic.[8] After this Fitraak News also deny any involvement of Malik Riaz and endorse the statement of Mr Mir.[9]
In July 15, 2015 Fitraak News release a secret Letter of Nasir Durrani, IG Police KPK in which he declared Imran Khan a VIP while Imran Khan continuously use a slogan of anti VIP-Culture.[10] After some time Fitraak News release a Letter of Abid Sher Ali who was a Federal Minister of Water and Power on that time in which he illegally order to allot a transformer to a PML-N's official.[11] Both letter become Controversial on Social Media and Fitraak News was strongly criticized by workers of both PTI and PML-N.
Political Views
Waseem Tarar has stated that "Fitraak News is totally unbiased, neutral, and not positioned ideologically in terms of his policy and coverage. Fitraak News believe in rule of law and true positive journalism which covers what really the truth is."
Team of Fitraak News
Fitraak News claims that executive committee of Fitraak News Network is consisted of highly professional and most experienced news team of Pakistan including Pakistan's top News personalities given below.[2]
| Name | Position in Fitraak News | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
| Waseem Tarar | President & Editor-in-chief | Columnist Daily Pakistan |
| Aftab Ahmed | Managing Editor | Digital Media Expert |
| Salman Abid | Editor | Columnist Daily Express |
| Afzal Butt | Coordinator Media Affairs | President PFUJ |
| Muhammad Izhar ul Haq | Special Advisor | Columnist Daily Dunya |
External links
References
- ↑ "Fitraak News, Company Address". Fitraak Official site. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Team of Fitraak News on Fitraak News official website".
- ↑ "fitraaknews.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
- 1 2 "Special Report of Media Blinks on Fitraak News". Media Blinks Magazine. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "Official Website of Fitraak News".
- ↑ "Alexa Profile of Fitraak News". Alexa, Amazon Ltd. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ "Social Baker Report on Fitraak". Report of Social Bakers about Fitraak News. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- ↑ "Twitter Statement of Media Blink about Fitraak News".
- ↑ "Official Response of Fitraak News on wrong allegations". Fitraak News response on allegations. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ↑ "Letter of IG KPK Nisar Durrani". Letter of Nisar Durrani. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ↑ "Letter of Abid Sher Ali". Letter of Abid Sher Ali PMLN's Official. Retrieved 30 August 2015.