CV

EDUCATION:

• SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

            MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries/ 2018-2019/ (2:1) grade

• INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISM, BERLIN

            Multimedia and Online Journalism certificate/2008

• UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (COMPUTER SCIENCE)/2004

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• NORTH CYPRUS/NICOSIA

            Weekly Cyprus Today/News Editor/Feb. 2020 – March 2020

• UK/LONDON

            Data company MyWorld.Degree/Researcher/June 2019 - Dec. 2019

• TURKEY/ANKARA

            Anadolu Agency/Basmuhabir (Senior desk editor)/ Oct. 2014 - Sept. 2018

• QATAR/DOHA

Daily newspaper ‘Gulf Times’/ Staff Reporter/ Feb. 2013 - Sept. 2014

U.S. ‘McClatchy’ Media group/ Special Correspondent/ June 2014 - Sept. 2014

• PAKISTAN/KARACHI

Daily The Express Tribune/ Investigative Reporter/ March 2010 - Nov. 2012

News wire Agence France-Presse (AFP)/ Stringer/ May 2012 - Jan. 2013

News portal Dawn.com/Senior Reporter/ Jan. 2008 - March 2010

Daily newspaper Dawn/Senior Subeditor and Reporter/ Dec. 2006 - Jan. 2008

News portal Dawn.com/ Content Coordinator/ March 2005 - Nov. 2006

Spider magazine/Reporter & Editorial Assistant/ June 2003 - Nov. 2004  

LANGUAGES:

• English: Fluent/Native-like
• Urdu/Hindi: Native
• Turkish: Intermediate
• Arabic: Basic

SKILLS:

• Big Data Analysis and Data Visualization (R, Tableau)
• Social Media management (Google Analytics/SEO)
• Video/Audio Editing (Adobe Suite/Audacity)
• Writing and Editing (Microsoft Office Suite/ Google Docs)
• Consensus building and teamwork
• Leadership and task delegation
• Breaking news experience and Reporting