Name Zubeida Mustafa Role Journalist | Education University of Karachi | |
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Zubeida Mustafa (born 1941) is a freelance journalist from Pakistan. She became the first woman to work in the country's mainstream media, when she joined the Dawn newspaper in 1975.
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- Background
- Education
- Career
- Awards
- References
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Background
Born in British India, Mustafa moved to Pakistan with her family after Partition. She is married and has two daughters.
Education
Mustafa completed her BA and then her MA in International Relations from University of Karachi. She also studied at the London School of Economics under a Commonwealth Scholarship.
Career
Mustafa joined Dawn, Pakistan's leading English language daily in 1975 as assistant editor. She was the only woman in Dawn at a senior level who was the first woman leader writer in the mainstream media in Pakistan. During that time she used her gender to her advantage and covered the stories that the men could not cover, such as women's issues concerning health and human rights. She used her perspective as a woman to write editorials promoting international peace and pleading for social justice.
As a female journalist, Mustafa has stated that the injustices Pakistani women suffer "touches her deeply." According to a 2012 Newsline Magazine profile, she mentions how important it is for women to seize the opportunities given to them. Though women's issues was her main beat, she also focused on education, empowerment, health and population. She has stated that focusing on education was important since the root of problems in Pakistan was the country's failure to educate their citizens, especially in health issues.
In 1986, Mustafa was awarded the Global Media Award for Excellence by The Population Institute in Washington for her research and writings on population control in Pakistan.
In 2012, Mustafa was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Women Media Foundation for her coverage on women's issues, politics, educations, health and culture. In 2013, the Women Media Center awarded her for her contributions to journalism in Pakistan.
Awards
- Global Media Award for Excellence (1986 and 2004) by The Population Institute
- Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association (2005) for her contribution in Books & Authors
- Lifetime Achievement Award (2012) by International Women Media Foundation (IWMF)