After a period of dormancy, Guppu.com has relaunched with a new niche of satirical, ironic, memes, and viral content with a more global audience in mind. While the blog no longer has a regional focus and posts satirical commentary on international headlines, leveraging its charming name, don't wonder if the United States, Germany, and Pakistan get featured more often than the others. This, thanks to the personal biography of the founder and editor Muhammad Farhan (known by pen name Farhan Janjua).
About Muhammad Farhan (Farhan Janjua):
In his professional digital journalism/editing career spanning roughly 12 years (2010 to 2022), Farhan has had multiple prominent gigs including helping run digital newsrooms at the prominent prime time news outlet Dunya News in Pakistan, writing and editing at networks of international bloggers -- FutureChallenges.org and GlobalVoices.org -- as well as being the Digital Editor at a prominent Pakistani newspaper Daily Times. Farhan continued to work in the field of digital media in Germany as a freelancer serving clients like Reporters without Borders, Germany, Deutsche Welle (DW), and HandbookGermany.
Farhan switched career in 2023 and has been working as a social care worker while training to be a licensed social worker in Germany. Leveraging over a decade of digital media, news and political commentary experience, Muhammad Farhan is uniquely positioned as a social worker, putting valuable expertise like political education and media/digital literacy to work.
Blogging remains one of Farhan's original passions and he's aiming to resume it partly as a hobby. This of course isn't easy when you're juggling a job and a university education. This is where Farhan has decided to experiment with AI and see how much of the AI assistance can help him be part of the game again. Guppu.com relaunch is a step in that direction.
Guppu in many Indian languages means someone who talks a lot or someone who jokes a lot. Guppu.com was originally established in 2008 as Pakistan's original and award-winning blog dedicated to news, politics, and culture.
The platform gained prominence by breaking significant stories, notably exposing the tragic death of a Pakistani man during a reality show competition sponsored by a major multinational corporation.
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