Investigations

#GrabYourKeyboards: Inside Pakistan's hashtag mills
How coordinated networks of real accounts manufacture Pakistan's political Twitter trends.

The Rohingyas of Pakistan: In search of an identity
Inside Arkanabad, the Karachi slum where many of Pakistan's Rohingya live, still searching for an identity.

How Pakistani Politicians and Fake Accounts Drove Twitter Trends on Lahore's Political Violence
Tracing who was actually behind the hashtags in the hours after the Model Town killings.

School first, fish later: Little fishermen now getting an education
Parents sending children to school despite the Rs 800 a day those children bring in.
Data

Explore the data: ECP releases final list of candidates for 2018 Senate election
A visual read of the outgoing and nominated senators heading into the vote.

Explore the data: Drone strikes in Pakistan
At least 430 strikes confirmed since April 2004, mapped against where and when they landed.
Immersive

Laundry Day Around the World
From handwashing to laundromats — the shared spaces where people do laundry, in 360.

Punch With Pakistani Girls at a Karachi Boxing Club
Women's boxing is growing fast in Pakistan. Put on the gloves and go a round in 360.

360° tour inside Karachi's Frere Hall
Every nook and corner of one of the city's most popular heritage sites.
Newsroom

Let 2021 Be the Year of Local News in Pakistan
Why news organisations need business models built around what their communities want.

Newsrooms in Crisis
What it takes for a newsroom to survive the pandemic.

Evolving the digital newsroom
Why Pakistan's digital newsrooms are stagnating, and where new ideas could come from.
Music

Lost Tales
The stories behind Pakistan's cult classics from the 90s, built as a scrolling interactive.

Vinyl collectors: For the record
Scratch beneath the surface and a world of vinyl collectors emerges in Pakistan.
Elsewhere

Understanding the AI revolution
AI isn't going to dominate newsrooms in some dramatic takeover. It is quietly becoming infrastructure — embedded into every layer of the editorial process.

+92 Disrupt Unplugged
An episode on inclusive communication in Pakistan, hosted by Zainab Nasir.

Disrupting Karachi
Aurora's report from the +92 Disrupt conference, including the misinformation panel I sat on.

'Eagle eye' required to distinguish fact from fake news, moot told
People should have the right eye to catch or identify fake news because these days the culprits spreading disinformation are always a step ahead of technology.

Faking news: The dark side of news media
What we have seen over the past few years is that a hashtag campaign starts on Twitter and all of a sudden hundreds of users start tweeting using the same hashtag.

Video everywhere: Live, VR, and 360
Panel at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, on what newsrooms were learning from live, VR and 360 video.

Tuning in: Down by the station
A profile of Jamaat-ul-Mausiqi, the Pakistani music podcast co-hosted with Ahmer Naqvi.