Habiba Nosheen

Habiba Nosheen (Urdu: حبیبہ نوشین‎) (born 1982) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist.[1] Her film Outlawed in Pakistan premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013 and was called "among the standouts" of Sundance by the Los Angeles Times. Nosheen's 2012 radio documentary, "What Happened at Dos Erres?" aired on This American Life and was called "a masterpiece of storytelling" by The New Yorker. A longer version of the film aired on Frontline.

Habiba Nosheen
حبیبہ نوشین
Born
Habiba Nosheen

1982
Lahore, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani-Canadian
OccupationJournalist
A Peabody Award for "What Happened at Dos Erres?"
Sebastian Rotella, Habiba Nosheen, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Julie Snyder and Ira Glass

Nosheen has received numerous awards for her reporting including the Peabody, Gracie award for Outstanding Reporter/Correspondent, two Overseas Press Club Awards, The Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, Third Coast Radio Award, two South Asian Journalist Association Awards in addition to being a finalist for The Livingston Award for Young Journalists and nominated for an Emmy.

In 2016, it was announced that Nosheen will join CBC Television's newsmagazine series The Fifth Estate as a reporter and cohost in January 2017.[2]

Early life

Nosheen was born in Lahore, Pakistan. Her family moved to Toronto, Canada when she was nine. She received her master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a master's degree from York University, Toronto in Women's Studies. She obtained a bachelor's degree from University of Toronto. She is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi.[1]

Career

Nosheen's reporting has appeared in various news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Glamour, BBC, CBC, PBS, NPR and This American Life. .[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Nosheen's documentaries have been supported by The Fund for Investigative Journalism, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund and ITVS.[1] She also currently teaches journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Awards
  • The Gracie Award[11]
  • The South Asian Journalist Association Award[1]
  • The Morton Mintz Award[1]
  • The Leslie Sanders Award[1]
  • The IRE finalist[1]
  • The Best Canadian Spectrum at HotDocs International Documentary Festival. She was part of the team that won that award)[1]
  • A Finalist for 2012 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism
  • A Gemini Award nomination (Canada's version of the Emmy awards)

See also

References
  1. "Habiba Nosheen". ProPublica.Org. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
  2. "Emmy winner joins CBC's fifth estate". Toronto Star, September 23, 2016.
  3. Nosheen, Habiba (13 February 2009). "Queens Up Close - 911? Sorry, I Wanted India". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  4. "Nepal: Escaped from the Sex, Unable to Go Home (Video)". TIME.
  5. Habiba Nosheen, Hilke Schellmann (October 2010). "The Most Wanted Surrogates in the World". Glamour. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  6. Anup Kaphle, Habiba Nosheen (9 January 2011). "After string of gay-friendly measures, Nepal aims to tap valuable tourist market". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  7. "The Current". CBC.
  8. Habiba Nosheen (6 May 2011). "Video:Left in limbo: Nepalese adoptions halted". PBS. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  9. Habiba Nosheen (17 April 2012). "Pakistan's Hidden Victims of Child Incest". The World. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  10. Habiba Nosheen (17 January 2011). "Pakistan's Lesbians Live In Silence, Love In Secret". NPR. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  11. "PBS System Honored with Six Gracie Awards". PBS. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
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