Native name শামীম চৌধুরী Occupation Journalist Residence West London, England Name Shamim Chowdhury | Nationality British Role Journalist Ethnicity Bengali | |
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Alma mater Queen Mary UniversityBirkbeck CollegeCity University London Education Queen Mary University of London, City University London, Birkbeck, University of London Profiles | ||
TRT World's Asia Reporter on witnessing scale of the Rohingya refugee crisis
TRT World - Shamim Chowdhury reports on Syrian art in Istanbul
Shamim Chowdhury (Bengali: শামীম চৌধুরী) is an English television and print journalist.
Contents
- TRT Worlds Asia Reporter on witnessing scale of the Rohingya refugee crisis
- TRT World Shamim Chowdhury reports on Syrian art in Istanbul
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Early life
Chowdhury's parents were born in Bangladesh and emigrated to the United Kingdom. She is of Sylheti heritage. The late general Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani, the commander-in-chief of the East Pakistani liberation forces of 1971, is her great uncle and grew up in the same household as her paternal grandfather.
Chowdhury has a BSc from Queen Mary University, a MSc from Birkbeck College, and a post-graduate diploma in Newspaper Journalism from City University London.
Career
Chowdhury started out in print journalism and has written for British national newspapers, including The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, and The Independent. She has also had his own newspaper column for Bangla Mirror.
Since 2007, Chowdhury has worked for Al Jazeera English as a deputy news editor, news editor, reporter and producer. She is based in the European news centre in London, but has also worked in the main news centre in Doha, Qatar. She has reported on a wide range of issues for the channel from the UK and Bangladesh, and is considered by the channel to be its Bangladesh expert.
She currently writes blogs for The Huffington Post on a range of socio-political issues. Her previous television experience includes work at the BBC, ITN, and Sky News.
Chowdhury has taken part in current affairs and politics debates at The House of Lords and on live television discussion programmes and has also been on the judging panel of media awards ceremonies.
Since October 2013, Chowdhury has been on a judging panel member at the Asian Media Awards.
Personal life
Chowdhury is a Muslim and lives in West London. She has visited almost 50 countries including parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia. On one occasion, she worked with a leading charity to help build a community centre in a remote part of Cambodia.