Anila Baig

Anila Baig (born 1970) is a British Pakistani Feature Writer at The Sun.

Anila Baig, whose ancestors were from Pakistan,[1] was born and raised in the city of Bradford. Anila Baig had her first column published in the local newspaper at the age of 16. She then went on to study English at the university and trained as a teacher.[2] Baig began working as a journalist in 1998, when she joined the Telegraph & Argus newspaper as a trainee reporter, before moving to Yorkshire Post as a columnist.[3] In addition to writing news reports, she also started a weekly column and won the Press Gazette Regional Columnist of the Year award 2004. She joined The Sun soon after, where she writes a weekly column and commententaries. She has also served as a TV previewer for the paper. She has also written opinion pieces for and has featured in The Mirror.[4][5][6] She was also a finalist in the Asian Women of Achievement awards.[7] Although not wearing a Hijab in any of her previous employments, Baig was seen on The Sun's Front Page donning the Muslim headscarf; however, she ditched the cloth early in 2004 leading to speculation that she and The Sun treated this symbol of the Islamic faith as a mere publicity gimmick. In 2006, she was signed up by Virgin Books to write her memoirs.[8]

References
  1. A Chat with the Sun's Anila Baig Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Our debate experts
  3. Muslim columnist trades Yorkshire Pudding for Currant Bun shocker!
  4. Smith, Mikey (2015-11-23). "No, 1 in 5 British Muslims doesn't have sympathy with ISIS. Here's why..." mirror. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  5. Smith, Mikey (2019-05-15). "Government set to reject calls to define Islamophobia as a kind of racism". mirror. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  6. Baig, Anila (2019-03-16). "Anila Baig: 'That some want to kill us for simply existing fills me with terror'". mirror. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  7. Meco Annual Conference - 2005 Archived February 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  8. Sun TV columnist inks book deal


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