NOORILHUDA

Islamabad, Pakistan
E: noorilhuda2@yahoo.com

PERSONAL STATEMENT:
My driven, proactive and ethical approach has led to many inspired successes in my 15-year career
in current affairs broadcast shows and freelance journalistic work. Skilled in generating creative
ideas and alleviating research. Well-read. Currently looking for a challenging opportunity. Flexible
with regards to working hours.

EDUCATION:

Diploma, Broadcast Journalism, Thomson Foundation, Wales, UK, 2005

Masters in Psychology, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2002
Bachelors, Law, Punjab Law College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 2001
BA, Psychology and Home Economics, F. G. College Kashmir Road Rawalpindi, 1996

WORK EXPERIENCE (BROADCAST):

Content Producer, Dunya TV, Islamabad:
(July 2012 - Feb. 2014)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Hired for Urdu-language primetime Mon-Fri show “Dunya@8with Malick”
• Spearheaded and designed research on issues and guests (calls, footwork, documents,
correspondence, interviews, audio/ visual data)
• Chaired and organized the 2-member research team, working closely with the Executive Producer
on visual representation of attained data; Liaised with departments and bureaus in other cities,
including headquarter in Lahore
• Launched and developed ground-breaking topics for the show, for e.g.: ‘Celebrity Islam,’ ‘Place
and identity of transgender community in Pakistani society’
• Briefed the host
• Scheduled / Booked guests for the show
• Carried out other administrative errands, including forming quarterly program budget.
• Worked 10-12 hour days in a highly competitive, super-charged environment

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Researcher, ARY News, Islamabad:
(June 2011 - July 2012)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Hired for Urdu-language primetime Mon-Fri show “Pakistan Tonight with Fahd Husain”
• Spearheaded, designed and organized research on issues and guests (calls, footwork, documents,
correspondence, interviews, audio/ visual data)
• Briefed the host
• Scheduled / Booked guests for the show
• Worked 10-12 hour days

Producer, GEO English, Islamabad:

(July 2007 – Oct. 2008)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Hired for now-defunct English-language version of GEO TV.
• Reported directly to the bureau chief
• Assisted senior producer of morning show in creating A/V content for the show
• Designed and developed a tri-weekly foreign affairs show “Diplomatic License”
• Reporter, researcher, producer, and editor for the 35-minute documentary “Students of Lal
Masjid”; Travelled to Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, and within Rawalpindi-Islamabad for on-
location shoots with a cameraman; Secured and did phone interviews with families residing in
Rahim Yar Khan, Attock, Jhang and Kashmir

Associate Producer, DawnNews, Islamabad:

(Dec. 2006 – May 2007)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Hired for the now-defunct English-language version of DawnNews
• Reporter, researcher, producer, editor for the “Who am I? – I am Pakistan” 3-minute inspirational
stories series of ordinary Pakistanis who succeeded despite adversity, in places like Dir, Takht-
Bahi, Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, Abbotabad, Manshera, Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad,
Rawalpindi, Attock, Okara, Khushab, Rajanpur, Lahore, Silakot, Multan, Tharparkar, Mithi,
Hyderabad, Karachi, Gwadar, Hub, Chaman and Quetta
• KPK fillers were produced first

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 • Bio-Stories included an illiterate farmer who created a unique schooling system in interior
Sindh, three handicapped (via polio) brothers who work as tailors and are rich and married
and have healthy kids, a woman who built a career in the garbage disposal "industry", a
fisherman who became a local councillor, a blind boy who through his hard work and his
mother's perseverance earned scholarship to Harvard, an old herder with a unique method
of protecting forest, a former dancing (nautch) girl who rebuilt her life as a successful
homemaker and worker, a museum curator who followed his passion for archeology, a girl
married off at 14 who built a successful career as a social worker, etc.

Producer, ARY One World:

(Sept. – Dec. 2006)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Booked Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, his first for Pakistani TV, and produced the
interview, conducted by Fahd Husain

Associate Producer / Producer, GEO TV:

(Sept. 2003- June 2005)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Hired for the flagship English-language 10 o’clock Mon-Fri show “Follow Up with Fahd”
• Booked international notables for their first Pakistani interviews, including
• Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix,
• Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammad,
• U.S. film star and UNHCR Representative Angelina Jolie,
• Commonwealth Sec. Gen. Don McKinnon,
• Pakistan’s Pres. Gen. Pervez Musharraf,
• India’s former Prime Minister I.K. Gujral,
• India’s former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh etc.
• Arranged, developed and produced the episode on Gwadar, the first for prime time cable TV
• Spearheaded and designed research and questions / talking points on issues and guests (calls,
footwork, documents, correspondence, interviews, audio/ visual data)
• Edited shows
• Carried out other administrative errands, including forming quarterly program budget, organizing
show’s A/V, soft disk promotions for U.S. elections, greeting guests and arranging refreshments,
writing and posting officials letters to all embassies and consulates in Pakistan
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• Worked 12-15 hour days in a highly competitive, super-charged environment

BROADCAST TRAINING:
International Broadcasting Journalism, Thomson Foundation, Cardiff, Wales
(June - Sept. 2005)
Three-month intensive course
DawnNews Headquarters, Karachi, Pakistan.
(Dec. 2006 – Jan. 2007)
Training included shooting and editing news packages around 6 o'clock deadline, working as news
bulletin broadcast director.

WORK EXPERIENCE (PRINT-NEWSPAPER/ MAGAZINE):

Freelance Journalist, Pakistan
(2005 - Present)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Recipient of two awards at the 23rd APNS Journalist Awards 2012, held on 30th May, 2018:
• APNS Best Feature (English Publication) for monthly Newsline
• APNS Best Investigative Report for monthly Newsline (joint award)
• Pitched groundbreaking story ideas to editors of English-language dailies and monthlies including
The News International, Newsline Magazine and the now-defunct Pique Magazine.
• Work frequently appears on front page / cover.
• Only Pakistani reporter to interview death-row dual national Mirza Tahir Hussain in Adiala Jail
during his incarceration
• Other comprehensive stories include the death of hundreds of soldiers in Siachen glacier disaster,
the ratio of minorities in Pakistan’s Armed Forces, Asghar Khan petition on election engineering;
the legal case against controversial political dynamo Altaf Hussain in UK and Pakistan; the status
and lives of Afghan refugees; Shia-Sunni sectarian conflict in Parachinar, Quetta and Gilgit-
Baltistan; unethical practices in broadcast media; and alcohol sale and consumption in Pakistan in
the aftermath of the Christmas Day deaths.
https://scribd.com/noorilhuda ; https://www.dawn.com/news/1381144
April 2017: The Price of Prohibition, Special Report on liquor consumption, Newsline Magazine
http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/the-price-of-prohibition/
Dec. 2016: Pumping Poison, Special Report on bodybuilding culture, Newsline Magazine

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http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/pumping-poison/
Dec. 2014: Worked on a feature story on Afghan Refugees for Newsline Magazine
https://www.scribd.com/document/334165103/Article-Afghans-Are-Here-to-Stay-201214
July 2014: Future Unknown, Special Report on Altaf Hussain’s legal chances, Newsline Magazine
https://www.scribd.com/doc/237032038/Article-FutureUnknownJuly2014-Pt1
6th June 2014: Karachi’s Independence Day, Op-Ed, Daily Times
http://dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/06-Jun-14/karachis-independence-day
June 2014: The Ugly Business of the Fourth Estate, Cover Story, Pique Magazine
http://pique.pk/the-ugly-business-of-the-fourth-estate/
May 2014: A Conformist takes charge of HEC, Pique Magazine
http://pique.pk/a-conformist-takes-charge-of-hec-2/
Sept. 2013: Like Father, Like Son, Pique Magazine
http://pique.pk/like-father-like-son/
May 2013: The State of Magazine Journalism in Pakistan, Cover Story, Pique Magazine
http://pique.pk/the-state-of-magazine-journalism-in-pakistan/
Nov. 2012: Army of the Pure, religious minorities in Armed Forces, Newsline Magazine
https://www.scribd.com/document/334156871/Article-Minorities-Come-a-Long-Way-in-Armed-
Forces-230912
Nov. 2012: A Girl versus a Militia, Cover Story, Pique Magazine
http://pique.pk/a-girl-versus-a-militia/
October 2012: Bloodied Faith, Cover Story, Pique Magazine
http://pique.pk/bloodied-faith/
Sept. 2012: The Price of Parliament, Newsline Magazine
with wrong byline: http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/the-price-of-parliament/
Aug. 2012: The Rites and Wrongs of Higher Ed., Newsline Magazine
http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/exposing-the-plagiaristic-practices-of-pakistans-phds/
19th June 2012: When Mythical Hope Kills Ugly Truth, Op-Ed, Daily Times
http://dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/18-Jun-12/when-mythical-hope-kills-ugly-truth
June 2012: Our Collective Waterloo, Newsline Magazine
http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/will-pakistan-and-india-ever-agree-to-demilitarise-siachen/
May 2012: The Billion Dollar Question, Newsline Magazine
http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/the-billion-dollar-question-of-siachen/
May 2012: Into the Valley of Death: The Siachen Conflict, Cover Story, Newsline Magazine

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http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/into-the-valley-of-death-the-siachen-conflict/
March 2012: Mehrangate - Act One, Part Two, Newsline Magazine
http://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/mehrangate-act-one-part-two/
17th Aug. 2006: Why Israel didn’t win this war?, International pg., The Nation (Islamabad, Lahore,
Karachi editions)
13th July 2006: Should Mirza Tahir Hussain be hanged? – II, pg. 9, The News International
(Islamabad edition)
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/amp/15501-should-mirza-tahir-hussain-be-hanged?
12th July 2006: Why there must be a rethink before his sands of life are run – I, front page, The
News International (Islamabad edition)
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/15344-rs4.8-billion-imported-solar-lights-installed-at-
residences-of-govt-officials
26th June 2006: At Death’s Door – Story of Mirza Tahir Husain - Part 2, front page, The News
International (Islamabad edition)
https://www.scribd.com/doc/237030886/Article-TahirHussain-26June06-pt4-pdf
25th June 2006: At Death’s Door – Story of Mirza Tahir Husain - Part 1, front page, The News
International (Islamabad edition)
https://www.scribd.com/doc/237030688/Article-Tahir-Hussain-25June06-Pt1
22nd May 2006: Anatomy of a Suicide Attacker – Part 2, front page, The News International
(Islamabad edition)
21st May 2006: Anatomy of a Suicide Attacker – Part 1, front page, The News International
(Islamabad edition)
https://www.scribd.com/doc/237028745/Article-SuicideBombers-21May06-Pt1
9th April 2006: The Door to China, Political & Economy Section, The News International
(Islamabad edition) - full sheet, whole page.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/237028127/Article-China-09April06-Pt1
8th March 2006: Pakistan's need for Nuclear Energy, Op-Ed, Dawn.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1068808
14th Oct. 2005: Heart rending tales of woe from Bagh, The News International (Islamabad edition)
https://www.scribd.com/doc/237027725/Article-Bagh-14Oct-05-Pt1
9th Oct. 2005: Pak Crisis Management cell lacks data, The News International (Islamabad edition)
16th June 2005: Anti-piracy Drive - good news bad news, front page, The News International
(Islamabad edition)

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WORK EXPERIENCE (PRINT - REPORT):
Freelance Researcher / Interviewer, ‘DFID Report on State of Journalism in Pakistan’:
(Nov. 2005 - Jan. 2006)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• Single-handedly conducted an extensive internal study that involved traveling to Karachi, Lahore,
Islamabad and speaking with newspaper owners, editors, TV directors, bureau chiefs and owners
of regional and national cable channels, famous print and TV journalists and talk show
personalities, press club officials of the four provinces, professors of the departments of
journalism from 14 universities in the four provinces and members of the various broadcast and
print and governmental associations.
• Researched and wrote the 350-page plus English-language report.

WORK EXPERIENCE (CREATIVE WRITING):

Self-published Author, Fiction
(2014 - Present)
Achievements and Responsibilities:
• ‘The Governess’ (2014) ebook is routinely picked up in UK featuring in Amazon’s Top 100 Free /
Paid lists. Genre: historical literary fiction / inspirational women’s fiction. ASIN: B00MF8BJQE.
ISBN-10: 1500998567; ISBN-13: 978-1500998561.
• ‘Catharsis’ (2015). Genre: thriller, suspense, mystery. ASIN: B010IQSFN4. ISBN-10:
1514709759. ISBN-13: 978-1514709757.
https://amazon.com/author/noorilhuda ; https://www.goodreads.com/Noorilhuda

REFERENCES:
References are available upon request.