Tazeen Ahmad

Tazeen Ahmad
Notable credit(s) NBC News
Radio 4
5 Live
Channel 4's Dispatches

Tazeen Ahmad is a reporter for both American television news and British TV. She is a foreign correspondent for NBC News and an investigative reporter for Channel 4's current affairs show Dispatches. She also writes for newspapers and has written a book.

Broadcasting career

Ahmad is an experienced broadcaster, journalist and writer who has presented and reported for programmes right across radio and television. She has been a reporter in news and current affairs in television and radio for over 17 years which includes working for NBC, Channel 4 and the BBC 5 Live and on Radio 4 as well as the World Service.

She has also reported on BBC One's Election night and on other radio and TV documentaries. Most recently she has been working for C4's Dispatches and NBC News.[1] She was also a presenter of 60 Seconds[2] and The 7 O'Clock News on BBC Three.[3]

Ahmad has also made a number of documentaries for Channel 4's Dispatches programme which include investigations into sex gangs in the UK, exposes on the world of fashion, credit cards and the cosmetics industry as well as British schools, among others.[4][5] She has also reported for the BBC's Inside Out.[6]

Writing

Ahmad released her first book in August 2009 The Checkout Girl (published by The Friday Project/Harper Collins).[7] Ahmad's account is of six months she spent working 'undercover' as a real checkout assistant in English supermarkets.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Feeling financial pinch, Queen sheds pounds NBC News, 17 July 2010
  2. ↑ Out with the old, in with the new, jazzier BBC 10 O'Clock News The Guardian, 4 August 2001
  3. ↑ BBC3 gets serious with promise of hard news show The Independent, 3 January 2004
  4. ↑ Dispatches: When Cousins Marry New Statesman, 27 August 2010
  5. ↑ Dispatches: Undercover Mother Times Online, 23 July 2007
  6. ↑ Inside Out London BBC One, 15 February 2010
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ Life as a secret checkout worker BBC News, 10 August 2009

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