Women and Gender Studies InstituteWomen and Gender Studies Institute
Join us for a special event with three-time Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, filmmaker and WGSI alum Habiba Nosheen. This talk will be hosted by the WGSI’s inaugural Journalism Fellow, award-winning producer and broadcast journalist Samira Mohyeddin.
Habiba Nosheen is a three-time Emmy award-winning investigative reporter and filmmaker. Previously, she was the co-host of CBC News investigative documentary program, The Fifth Estate and an investigative correspondent for CBC News. Prior to the CBC, she was with CBS NEWS: 60 Minutes in New York, where her work earned two Emmy awards.
She was also the director and reporter for the Emmy award-winning documentary, “Outlawed in Pakistan” which aired on PBS FRONTLINE. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it was called “among the standouts” of Sundance by The Los Angeles Times.
Her 2012 PBS investigation, “To Adopt A Child,” earned her the Gracie Award for Outstanding Correspondent.
Habiba also held the prestigious NPR KROC Fellowship (2008-2009). She collaborated with This American Life and ProPublica for the 2013 radio documentary, “What Happened at Dos Erres?” which was called “a masterpiece of storytelling” by The New Yorker. The story was later adapted into a film by Stephen Spielberg and HBO called “Finding Oscar.”
A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism Masters program in New York, her reporting has garnered numerous awards including three Emmys awards, the George Foster Peabody, the Gracie Award for Outstanding Correspondent, three Overseas Press Club awards, the New York Festival award, and the Third Coast Audio Festival award. She has also earned three nominations for the Livingston Award, which recognizes the work of top journalists under the age of 35.
Habiba was born in Pakistan and moved to Canada at the age of nine as a refugee. She is fluent in four languages. She teaches courses at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her guilty pleasures include listening to terrible 90s pop music and baking cupcakes.
Samira Mohyeddin is an award-winning producer and broadcast journalist and is the President and Editor in Chief of On The Line Media. She has a Master of Arts in Gender and Mideast History from the University of Toronto and a post graduate diploma in journalism from Centennial College’s Story Arts Centre. Samira is a trained Shakespearean actor from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan and a graduate of genocide studies from the Zoryan Institute. For nearly a decade she was a producer and host at CBC Radio.