Nazim Baksh

Nazim Baksh
Nationality Canada
Known for Award winning producer

Nazim Ahmed Baksh is a Canadian journalist and television producer.[1] He is noteworthy for producing the documentary Son of al Qaeda, about Canadian youth Abdurahman Khadr.[2]

In 2006 the University of Toronto invited Baksh to serve an eight-month fellowship in its Journalism program.[3]

Baksh, Linden MacIntyre and Neil Docherty won an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists for a segment entitled The Mole that appeared on CBC News The National in 2007.[4] In 2011 Baksh and John Lancaster won a Canadian Association for Journalists award for "Death in a Community."[5]

Education

Education[3]
B.A. Political Science York University
1991 Masters Journalism University of Western Ontario

Career in Journalism

Baksh was hired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1990, following earning his Masters in Journalism, and has worked there, in one capacity or other, since.[6] His accomplishments there include:

Dispatches[6]
  • Baksh was a founding producer, and long-time contributor to this weekly radio show on international issues.
Son of al Qaeda[6]
  • Baksh was one of the producers of this profile of a Canadian youth who was captured in Afghanistan, served as a CIA informant, agreed to serve as a mole in Guantanamo.
A Secret History of 9/11[6]
  • Baksh helped produce this documentary for the fifth anniversary of al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001.
Nuclear Jihad[6]
Land, Gold and Women[6][7][8]
  • Baksh was a consulting producer for this documentary about the traditional social control of women in rural Pakistan.
The USA v. Omar Khadr
  • First broadcast as part of CBC's Doc Zone series on October 17, 2008.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Nazim Baksh (2003-12-04). "Abdurahman Khadr: mischief or terror?". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
  2. ↑ Nazim Baksh, Terrence McKenna (2004-04-22). "Correspondent's Notebook: Son Of Al Qaeda". Frontline (PBS). Retrieved 2012-05-25. Over Christmas, our Arabic-speaking Muslim producer Nazim Baksh made contact with Abdurahman -- and within a week he had confided the real story to Naz. He told us that he had been working for the CIA since mid-2002 -- including all the time he had been in Guantanamo -- that the story he presented at the press conference was a cover story dictated to him by the agency.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "CONGRATULATIONS to winners of the Massey College University of Toronto's 2006-2007 Journalism Fellowships" (PDF). University of Toronto. 2005. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  4. ↑ "CAJ award winners announced". Newswire.ca. 2007-05-26. Retrieved 2012-05-15. The winners in the OPEN TELEVISION (LESS THAN 5 MINUTES) category are: Linden MacIntyre, Neil Docherty, Nazim Baksh -- The Mole -- CBC News - The National
  5. ↑ "CBC wins 6 CAJ awards". CBC News. 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 "Sidi Nazim Baksh". IHYA. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
  7. ↑ "Land, Gold and Women". CBC News. 2006-03-05. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
  8. ↑ "Pakistan, land, gold, women". CBC News. 2006-02-28. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
  9. ↑ "The USA v. Omar Khadr". CBC News. 2008-10-17. Retrieved 2012-05-25.