LAHORE: The Joint Action Committee of journalists and media workers on Wednesday staged a sit-in outside the press club here.

They were protesting against lay-offs and salary cuts.

Besides office-bearers of journalists and media workers` bodies, newsmen, cameramen, photojournalists and media workers joined the sit-in and chanted slogans against the owners of media houses.

They announced staging a sit-in daily to press the authorities concerned for making media house owners withdraw the retrenchments.

They demanded that the government order audit of media houses` financial matters, including the advenisements payments as well as taxes paid.