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Wisal Yousafzai

Wisal Yousafzai

Reporter

About

v  Daily The Frontier Post I am working as staff reporter for more than five years. I have covered Health, Environment, Business, Economy and Politics. More than four thousand stories published that includes features and investigative stories. Still the Journey is continuing. v  Daily Times I worked as staff reporter in Peshawar Bureau office and covered health; environment as well as covering political beat for more than two years. v  Daily Express Tribune Worked with Express Tribune Magazine as freelance reporter from Peshawar and specially covered environment and culture issues. v  Intermedia Pakistan I have worked as trainer for three plus years in order to develop the capacity of journalist in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata, this included training on the conflict reporting. I also worked as researcher and script writer for the organization. v  Afghanistan Today I worked with “Afghanistan Today” as freelance reporter for the last four year, a project of the MICT German government. I working on different issues like polio breakup in Pakistan as well as working on the issues of Afghan people living in Pakistan. v  Universal Press Independent (UPI) and News Lens Pakistan I work with UPI next and News Lens Pakistan as a reporter for more than two years as freelance reporter. I work on health, human rights, Justice and Law and Investigative stories. v  Pact Radio (Pak-Afghan Cross Border Transmission) I work with Pact Radio for more than three years as Producer and Reporter covering Afghans issues in Peshawar. I was also produce a program for youth which was on-air from different radio station in Pakistan and Afghanistan to create awareness among youth for education and entrepreneurship. v  Pakhtunkhwa Radio FM 92.2 Mhz Peshawar I work with Pakhtunkhwa Radio as producer for more than one year. I present a current affair program with Pakhtunkhwa Radio as presenter and coordinator for the last four years as freelancer. Computer Skills: Software, Ms-Office, Excel, In-page, Adobe-Audition, Adobe-Photoshop, Adobe-Premier, CorelDraw, Pashto, Urdu typing, Internet Surfing. Languages: Pashto, English, Urdu, Persian. Distinction& Trainings: ·         One month experience with Internews training for filling stories and making reports for radio in the department of Journalism & Mass communication at University of Peshawar ·         Worked with Intermedia Pakistan as trainer, trained tribal journalists on responsible and safety journalism. ·         Conducted seven days survey for Pact Radio in Bajour Agency, Khyber and in North Waziristan Agency. ·         15-days Radio drama production training with Pact Radio. ·         Attended 15-days training of Training of the trainees (TOT) with Internews Islamabad. ·         Translated Bytes for All security and Digital Book from English to Pashto. ·         Attended 12-Days Business and Economy Training in Karachi, IBA University organized by CEJ. ·         Attended one week training workshop on Environment at Karachi organized by WWF Pakistan. ·         Attended one month training on reporting organized by News Lab at department of Journalism University of Peshawar. ·         Member of the Governing Body Peshawar Press Club. Personal Interest: ·         Management issues and policies. ·         Administrative   and political issues. ·         International Affairs. ·         Public and Social Issuues

Experience

Reporter

Express News

2016Present

i am working as a reporter with Express News covering human rights , environment, health, election commission etc

Reporter

The Frontier Post

20112015

I worked with Daily The Frontier Post covering election, parliamentary reporting and environment for more than three years.

Education

Journalism and Mass Communication

i did master degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Peshawar and an active journalist for the last eight years.

University of Peshawar

20062008