Shahzeb Jillani is a multimedia journalist with world's leading broadcasters in senior editorial and managerial roles. He has a track record of producing compelling, high quality, original content for digital, TV and radio. Mr. Jillani has an extensive experience in covering elections, natural disasters, militancy and interviewing news makers while reporting from the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and the Guantanamo Bay. He was associated as an editor and correspondent for BBC, as a Senior Executive Editor for Dunya News TV and was most recently working as a Senior Editor at DW News, Germany.
Amber Rahim Shamsi is an award-winning multi-media journalist and free speech advocate, with wide-ranging experience in television, radio, online and the print media. She is also an International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) and The Centre for Excellence in Journalism (ICFJ) fellow. She is currently head of communications at Tabadlab, a public policy think tank, consults with Media Matters for Democracy, a research and advocacy organisation working on freedom of expression, the media and the internet in Pakistan. She has also participated twice in the Jinnah Institute's India-Pakistan Track II Chaophraya Dialogue as an Emerging Leader. Ms. Shamsi has hosted three news and current affairs shows on mainstream news channels and writes opinion pieces for international media platforms. Previously she was a bilingual reporter for the BBC World Service, television anchor, desk editor, and producer. Her reporting largely focused on human rights. She has also written research reports and training manuals on women in the media, gender and conflict reporting, as well as conducted numerous media trainings.
Craig Duff is an Emmy award-winning video journalist and documentary television director, producer and writer. He specializes in visual storytelling and explanatory journalism. In January 2012, Craig was named a professor of journalism at the Medill School at Northwestern University, where he continues to teach and now manages the specialization in video and broadcast journalism in the school's graduate program.
His video journalism and documentary work has appeared on several major news outlets, including CNN, NYTimes.com, TIME, NBCNews.com, AJ+, MSNBC, WSJ.com, and The Discovery Channel.
Prior to joining the faculty at Medill, he was the director of multimedia and chief video journalist for TIME, where he oversaw video and other multimedia projects for the magazine's digital platforms and TIME.com.
In the months before he joined TIME, Craig was a Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence at Princeton University, where he taught a seminar on multi-platform journalism. While at TIME, he created a course in multiplatform storytelling for graduate students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He also spent a year n Egypt as a Knight International Journalism Fellow at the Center for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo. Prior to the fellowship and during his academic appointments, Craig worked with The New York Times as the paper first ventured into video journalism through the expanded use of video on nytimes.com. He began his career at CNN where he rose to the role as an executive producer of long-form programs.
At Medill, Professor Duff was also involved in the creation of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism at the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi.
His multiple-award-winning television work includes several documentaries produced with the New York Times, The Discovery Channel, the CBC and CNN.
Abdul Sattar Abbasi is an experienced multimedia journalist with over seven years of newsroom leadership. He holds an MBA from the University of Wales and began his career as an intern at The News International. He rose through the ranks to become the Managing Editor at Dawn.com. A technology enthusiast, he has dabbled in AI prompt engineering and has been a pioneer in introducing artificial intelligence into the newsroom. He has also conducted training sessions for the UNDP on Digital Citizenship, focusing on equipping participants with the skills to identify AI-generated disinformation.
Shahzeb Ahmed Hashim is a lecturer of digital news reporting and data journalism. He started his career in journalism with The Express Tribune, a Pakistan-based English language national daily affiliated with the New York Times. He also worked for national daily Dawn, where he was part of the core team responsible for bringing out the front, back and international pages.
More recently, he joined Dawn.com — the digital wing of Dawn — as an Editorial Consultant, where he heads the special features desk.
Ahmed has also reported on a range of issues in the fields of health, science, politics, crime, urban issues etc., besides working on special reports during elections and budget announcements.
He graduated with a Masters in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in June 2017.
Zofeen Ebrahim began her career as an editorial assistant at Women's Own, an English language women's magazine prior to joining Dawn as a feature writer.
Now working as a freelance journalist, Ebrahim has contributed to many national and international publications, including The Third Pole, Dawn.com, Inter Press Service, and The Guardian. She has extensive experience in research and reporting for NGO's, including a stint as the communications officer at the NGO Resource Center.
Ebrahim holds a Master's degree in journalism. She has received multiple national and international awards for her reporting on economic, development, and environmental issues throughout her distinguished career, including the Green Press Award, IPS Journalist Award, and the Global Media Award.
Mahim Maher is a journalist based in Karachi. She was most recently the editor for digital at SAMAA TV after an 18-year career in print. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts from the University of Melbourne, Australia; she studied Creative Writing at Concordia University, Montreal, and has a B.A. in Modern Languages (Russian and German) and Mathematics from McGill University, Canada. She is a Daniel Pearl and a Jefferson fellow. Maher served as metropolitan editor for The Express Tribune and Daily Times, news editor at The Friday Times and in various capacities at Dawn and Herald. She writes on Karachi’s urban infrastructure with data and mapping. Her workshops range from subediting and writing to digital storytelling.
Farieha Aziz is a Karachi based journalist and a co- founder of civil liberties and digital rights advocacy group, Bolo Bhi
Ayaz khan is a multimedia trainer, researcher, and technology specialist. since 2016, Ayaz has led the development of mobile journalism (mojo) in Pakistan to harness the potential of smartphones for content creation and storytelling.
Ayaz has conducted trainings with national and international journalists, media professionals, activists and students. He has worked with Express News, CEJ IBA, Global Neighborhood for Media Innovation (G.N.M.I), Society of International Education (S.I.E), different media organization & institutes and has trained hundreds of journalists, passionate filmmakers, content creators & storytellers.