Natasha Ghoneim
Natasha Ghoneim is an Egyptian-American journalist born on December 28, 1971 in Iowa City, Iowa. She is a senior correspondent with Al Jazeera English.
Professional history
Prior to being named Senior Correspondent for Al Jazeera English, Ghoneim[1] learned how to shoot and edit video as a graduate student at Columbia University, which prepared Ghoneim for her first job in television. Upon graduation, she moved back to her native Midwest to launch her career as a “one woman band,” shooting and editing stories for CBS affiliate, KHQA, in Quincy, Illinois. Despite growing up only several hours away by car, she had never heard of this small town along the Mississippi River, which celebrates its history as the host of one of the Lincoln Douglas debates. From Quincy, Ghoneim moved west, working for the ABC affiliate, KTNV in Las Vegas. She primarily reported for the morning show. She covered several national stories including a mass shooting inside an Albertson's supermarket in June 1999, the death of six teenagers who were run over by a former stripper under the influence, who fell asleep at the wheel in 2000, and various casino industry highlights including the spree of luxury resort openings, beginning with the Bellagio. As an Egyptian-American, she was tapped to work for the NBC affiliate, WDIV in Detroit when the station was looking to more fully represent the community. Dearborn, Michigan, has the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. Ghoneim[2] worked for KHOU, in Houston, KCTV, in Kansas City, and spent almost five years working for KNBC, the NBC owned and operated station in Los Angeles[3]. While there, she covered a variety of notable stories including the Malibu wildfire in 2007 and the Anna Nicole Smith death and paternity case. She also produced exclusive stories such as a teenage suicide linked to cyber-bullying and the federal conviction of a man deemed responsible, an identity theft victim who was mistakenly issued arrest warrants for prostitution and drugs, and the “cuddle party” phenomenon.
She has also worked at New York's beloved twenty-four hour news channel, NY1[4]. Along with reporting for Blouin Art Info[5].
In 2011, in the aftermath of the Arab Spring's Egyptian Revolution, Ghoneim freelanced in Egypt. She shot and edited stories highlighting this historic moment, including an investigation on the plight of the thousands of “disappeared.”
In 2013, Ghoneim[6] opened the first bureau for Al Jazeera America in Miami. Part of her beat as the Miami correspondent[7] included traveling to the military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and covering the controversial prison and its inmates. She produced several long-form stories for the channel’s flagship news magazine show, “America Tonight.” Ghoneim’s reports included the practice of civil commitment, which keeps a sex offender behind bars after their sentence is completed, and a village for sex offenders in the sugar cane country of Florida. In 2014, Ghoneim joined the international channel Al Jazeera English. As a senior correspondent for the network, she has traveled across the globe from Brazil to Russia, covering stories[8] from the war in Syria to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea. She spent six months based in Mexico City, covering Latin America. Ghoneim has also produced, reported, written, and hosted several episodes of "Talk to Al Jazeera in the Field".[9] In long form, she's tackled cultural clashes, rape as a weapon of war in South Sudan, child labor in the fields of Mexico[10], displaced children in Iraq[11], child marriage among Syrian refugees[12], and the epidemic of domestic violence in Iraq.
Education
Ghoneim has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Iowa and a Master of Science[13] degree in journalism from Columbia University. She studied Arabic at American University in Cairo, Egypt.
References
- ↑ Ghoneim, Natasha (10/11/2019). "Natasha Ghoneim education and experience". LinkedIn. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ "Al Jazeera America Announces Correspondents for Regional Bureaus". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ↑ "May 8: What's Jen Clicking on Between Newscasts?". NBC Southern California. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ↑ "NY1 On Scene: Red Hook Houses Left Out In The Cold As Residents Await Return Of Heat And Power | Red Hook Initiative". rhicenter.org. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ↑ Artist Profile: Chambliss Giobbi, retrieved 2019-10-12
- ↑ "Is One of Your Favorite Local Reporters Going to Work for Al Jazeera America? Network Announces Slew of New Hires". TheBlaze. 2013-07-30. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ↑ "Natasha Ghoneim Named Al Jazeera America Correspondent in Miami". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ↑ Natasha Ghoneim covers Tuareg culture for Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-10-12
- ↑ 'I felt I was going to die': Battling domestic violence in Iraq | Talk To Al Jazeera In The Field, retrieved 2019-10-08
- ↑ "Child Labor and the Peril of a Lost Education in Mexico". pvangels.com. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ↑ "Iraq's displaced children deprived of education – Al Jazeera English". newsvideo.su. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ↑ "Married at 14: Syria's refugee child brides". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
- ↑ "1995 Master's Projects | Columbia University Libraries". library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
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