Heba Aly (journalist)
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Heba Aly is a Canadian and Egyptian{{cite news |title=Sudan expels reporter over Darfur, arms: US |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL9290326 |access-date=16 October 2021 |work=Reuters |date=9 February 2009 |language=en}} journalist and news executive, currently serving as chief executive officer of the independent, non-profit news agency The New Humanitarian, formerly a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) known as Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). She led the transition of the news agency into its current status as an independent organization, which focuses on conflict journalism, especially in Africa.{{Cite web|last=Granger|first=Jacob|date=8 July 2021|title=Heba Aly, CEO of The New Humanitarian, on reshaping coverage of the Global South|url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/podcast/heba-aly-ceo-of-the-new-humanitarian-on-reshaping-coverage-of-the-global-south/s399/a838184/|access-date=6 October 2021|website=journalism.co.uk}}{{Cite web |last=Herman |first=Marc |date=12 October 2016 |title=Freed from UN, a 20-year-old news network embraces independence |url=https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/un_news_independent.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006163854/https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/un_news_independent.php |archive-date=6 October 2021 |access-date=6 October 2021 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en}}
Aly was named a 2018 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.{{Cite web|title=Heba Aly|url=https://www.weforum.org/people/heba-aly/|access-date=21 September 2021|website=World Economic Forum|language=en}} Her public leadership work involves advocating for quality news coverage of conflict areas and humanitarian work. She has been a speaker at TEDxChamonix{{Cite web|last=Aly|first=Heba|date=June 2017|title=Stop eating junk news|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/heba_aly_stop_eating_junk_news|website=TEDxChamonix}} and at PeaceTalks.{{Cite web |title=Heba Aly – PeaceTalks |url=https://www.peacetalks.net/pt/heba-aly/ |access-date=21 September 2021 |language=en-US}}
Early life
Aly was born in Ottawa, Canada. She graduated with highest honors and B.S. degrees in journalism and human rights from Carleton University.{{Cite web |title=Heba Aly |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/people/heba-aly |access-date=21 September 2021 |website=Pulitzer Center |language=en}}
Career
Aly spent her early career reporting from conflict zones in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.{{Cite web|title=Interview of Heba Aly, The New Humanitarian, on Peace & Humanitarian|url=https://genevasolutions.news/peace-humanitarian/interview-of-heba-aly-the-new-humanitarian-on-peace-humanitarian|access-date=21 September 2021|website=genevasolutions.news|date=4 March 2020 |language=en}} While a working journalist, she focused on reporting from Senegal, West Africa and Chad, central Africa, covering development and conflict in Niger, child trafficking in Nigeria, riots, and poverty in Senegal and Guinea Bissau, floods in Ghana, and displaced refugees from Chad and Sudan.
Her reporting has appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Christian Science Monitor, and Bloomberg News.{{Cite web |date=1 October 2015 |title=About Us |url=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/content/about-us |access-date=21 September 2021 |website=The New Humanitarian |language=en}} As chief executive, she is a frequent commentator and speaker on humanitarian policy at government briefings and conferences.{{Cite web|title=Heba Aly – ONA Community Profile|url=https://journalists.org/profiles/heba-aly/|access-date=21 September 2021|website=Online News Association|language=en-US}}
Awards and honors
Aly received a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for work in Sudan from 2008 to 2009.{{Cite web|last=Ali|first=Wasil|date=11 February 2009|title=Canadian journalist recounts days leading to expulsion from Sudan|url=https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/canadian-journalist-recounts-days-leading-expulsion-sudan|url-status=dead|access-date=21 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921233034/https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/canadian-journalist-recounts-days-leading-expulsion-sudan|archive-date=21 September 2021|website=The Sudan Tribune via the Pulitzer Center|language=en}}
She was named a 2018 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Aly was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2018 by the New African Magazine.
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