Salman Ahmad, News Reporter

Salman Ahmad

News Reporter

Daily The Nation

Location
Pakistan - Peshawar
Education
Master's degree, Journalism & Masscommunication
Experience
5 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :5 years, 0 Months

News Reporter at Daily The Nation
  • Pakistan - Peshawar
  • July 2014 to December 2014

My main duties included Covering all social issues in Peshawar and surrounding areas, and writing of news and feature reports.Handled all activities as Sub Editor and Proof Reader, and making the news up to standard journalism rules.

Feature producer/ Researcher at Raabta consultants .Pvt ltd
  • Pakistan - Peshawar
  • February 2013 to June 2014

Worked as a Reporter/Researcher with RAABTA CONSULTANTS on their Radio project named DA SOKALY TARHON in Khyber agency (targeted Area)
Main responsibilities were Field Survevy, research, Reporting, audio Editing, Mixing, Script writing and Production of the feature stories, narrative stories, package report, motivational stories and community talks about the livelihood, household income and economic situation of Khyber and the agency a basic factor caused militancy.

Reporter/ Researcher at Center for Research & Security Studies(CRSS)
  • Pakistan - Peshawar
  • January 2012 to June 2014

Worked as Reporter and field researcher on Gender based, Health, Militancy, livelihood and social issues.
• Editing, Mixing and Production of the issues of counter narrative against extremism and terrorism and flood affected people.
• Reporting, Editing, Mixing and Production events organized by government t institutions, semi-government institutions and NGOs, Prepared feature story, narrative story, package report, motivational story, community talk, news story and Panel discussion.
• Web search for radio Reports

News Reporter and Sub-editor at Daily Subh
  • Pakistan - Peshawar
  • January 2010 to June 2012

Main duties included Covering all social issues in Peshawar and surrounding areas, and writing of news and feature reports.
Handled all activities as Sub Editor and Proof Reader, page making and making the news up to standard journalism rules.

Education

Master's degree, Journalism & Masscommunication
  • at University of Peshawar,
  • December 2011

My field of study during master's program in journalism & Mass communication was news reporting, development support communication, Mass communication theories, Public relations and Media history & laws. for the completion of my degree requirements i have done internship in Campus Radio and Campus Television.

Bayt Tests

Negotiations Skills Test
Score 60%

Specialties & Skills

Online News
News Writing
Radio Production
Public Relations
Mass Communication
Mass communication
News writing
Radio production
Computer literacy
public relationing
Microsoft office
Social media
web browsing
Reporting
Development journalism

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
Pushto
Expert
Punjabi
Intermediate

Memberships

Khyber union of journalist
  • Journalism
  • January 2011
Peshawar press club
  • News reporting
  • January 2013

Training and Certifications

Radio Internship (Training)
Training Institute:
Campus Radio
Date Attended:
April 2011
Duration:
176 hours
Advance story Telling techniques (Training)
Training Institute:
Radio Feature production
Date Attended:
January 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Developmint journalism (Training)
Training Institute:
Indipendent project reporting (GIZ)
Date Attended:
October 2014
Duration:
390 hours
TV production (Training)
Training Institute:
Campus TV Department of journalism and Mass communication
Date Attended:
March 2011
Duration:
88 hours

Hobbies

  • English movies
    watched more than 500 hundred English movies of different types, for example Art, science fiction and historical.
  • Reading
    Read more than 100 books on different topics