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Full Name
  
Habiba Nosheen

Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
Habiba Nosheen


Occupation
  
Journalist

Nationality
  
Pakistani-Canadian

Education
  
University of Toronto

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Born
  
1982
Lahore, Pakistan

Movies
  
Outlawed in Pakistan, In the Name of the Family

Awards
  
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Research

Nominations
  
Gemini Award for Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Segment

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Profiles

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Habiba Nosheen (Urdu: حبیبہ نوشین‎) (born 1982) is a Peabody Award-winning Pakistani-Canadian journalist. 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.

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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.

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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.

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Early life

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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.

Career

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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. . 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. She also currently teaches journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Awards

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

    Habiba Nosheen Wikipedia