Tazeen Ahmad
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| Notable credit(s) | NBC News Radio 4 5 Live |
Tazeen Ahmad is a British television and radio presenter and reporter. She used to present the Channel 4 late-night discussion programme on Islamic issues called Shariah TV[1] and has been an investigative reporter for Channel 4's Dispatches.
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[edit] Broadcasting career
Ahmad is an experienced broadcaster who has presented and reported for programmes right across the BBC on radio and television. She has been a reporter in news and in current affairs in radio on 5 Live and on Radio 4, World Service[2] and the Hot Breakfast show on the BBC Asian Network[3] on weekends.
She is also an experienced TV reporter and has reported on BBC One's Election night, and other BBC documentaries, as well as NBC News.[4] She was also a presenter of 60 Seconds[5] and The 7 O'Clock News on BBC Three for several years.[6] Having been brought up a Muslim,[1] she has also covered many stories about Muslims in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Ahmad has also made a number of documentaries for Channel 4's Dispatches programme[7][8] and BBC's Inside Out.[9]
[edit] Writing
Ahmad released her first book in August 2009 The Checkout Girl (published by The Friday Project/Harper Collins)[10] Ahmad's account is of six months she spent working 'undercover' as a real checkout assistant in English supermarkets.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Interview with Tazeen Ahmad Channel 4, 22 June 2009
- ^ Lifeline service for victims of Pakistan floods BBC World Service, 6 August 2010
- ^ Desi DNA Presenters BBC Asian Network
- ^ Feeling financial pinch, Queen sheds pounds NBC News, 17 July 2010
- ^ Out with the old, in with the new, jazzier BBC 10 O'Clock News The Guardian, 4 August 2001
- ^ BBC3 gets serious with promise of hard news show The Independent, 3 January 2004
- ^ Dispatches: When Cousins Marry New Statesman, 27 August 2010
- ^ Dispatches: Undercover Mother Times Online, 23 July 2007
- ^ Inside Out London BBC One, 15 February 2010
- ^ Confessions of a checkout girl at Sainsbury's: A portrait of modern Britain from the other side of the till Mail Online, 7 August 2009
- ^ Life as a secret checkout worker BBC News, 10 August 2009
[edit] External links
- Author Profile - Tazeen Ahmad Harper Collins
