From Classroom to Newsroom: Exploring Gaps amid Journalistic Education and Practice in Pakistan

Media educational institutes are growing day by day and provide a variety of media-related courses. The issues that media educators encounter in educational institutions and while working as journalists in the media industry, are the main topic of study. The origins and reasons behind the gap between media practice and media education are covered in this study. The study's population is based upon working journalists who have earned degrees in media and communication studies and currently employed in the media sector. The sample comprised of two hundred active journalists from Peshawar and Islamabad. The study explains the reasons and factors that cause gap between media education and media practice.