Kiran Nazish

In the early 2000s, Nazish began her career in print journalism and went on to work in other media, including radio and television.{{cite news | title=Tüm Dünyadaki Kadın Gazeteciler İçin Bir Ağ: Coalition For Women In Journalism | website = Sivil Sayfalar | url= http://www.sivilsayfalar.org/2019/07/24/tum-dunyadaki-kadin-gazeteciler-icin-bir-ag-coalition-for-women-in-journalism/}} Nazish has won awards for her work{{cite web | title = The 2nd AGAHI Awards Maps out Quality Journalism in Pakistan | website = mishal.com.pk | url= http://mishal.com.pk/agahiawards2013-2/ | access-date = March 1, 2020}} and has extensively covered conflict, peace and security in South Asia and the Middle East.{{cite news |date=October 15, 2019 |title=Visiting prof goes from conflicts to BU campus |url=https://www.brandonsun.com/local/visiting-prof-goes-from-conflicts-to-bu-campus-563111032.html |location=Canada |access-date=January 14, 2020 |archive-date=October 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022104919/https://www.brandonsun.com/local/visiting-prof-goes-from-conflicts-to-bu-campus-563111032.html |url-status=dead }}

Her work included stories from Pakistan's tribal regions. She wrote, "I wanted to learn how journalists work in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a semiautonomous, conflict-ridden region made up of seven tribal 'agencies' along the Afghan border known as the 'war zone.' Twelve journalists have been killed there since the terrorist attacks in the US on 9/11. If Pakistan is the worst place to be a journalist, FATA is the worst of the worst."{{cite news | last=Nazish |first=Kiran |date= January 2013 | title = fundamental objections | url= https://archives.cjr.org/feature/fundamental_objections.php}} In Pakistan, she reported from the conflict-ridden FATA under Taliban control and later when the Pakistan army started its operation against terrorists in the region.{{cite news |date=January 16, 2015 |title=Extremism vs. Education | url=https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/extremism-vs-education-384988227815 |location=US |access-date=March 2, 2020 }}{{cite news |date=October 30, 2015 |title=Drone Warfare in Pakistan | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/video/onbackground/drone-warfare-in-pakistan/2013/10/30/7b570ff6-418d-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_video.html |location=US |access-date=February 28, 2020 }}

In 2017, Nazish catalogued the experiences of journalists working out of Mosul. "Journalists are beaten or executed as spies… the militant group ISIS began rounding up journalists suspected of leaking negative information about the Islamic State," she reported.{{cite news |last=Nazish |first=Kiran |date= October 25, 2015 |title=Life under Islamic State rule in Mosul one of constant fear |url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/25/life-under-islamic-state-rule-mosul-one-constant-fear/74383082/|location=Mosul |access-date=March 10, 2020 }}

She did several stories on the ISIS presence in Kobani.{{Cite news | date = October 15, 2014 |title=Escaping Kobane: Relief and guilt |url= https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/10/escaping-kobane-relief-guilt-20141015105312196979.html}}{{cite news | last=Ali| first=Huseyn | date= December 25, 2014 |title= I dream of a job, a school, a home| url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/12/kobane-refugee-testimony-20141224104626594140.html}} In one article, Nazish observed: "Many dead bodies of Islamic States fighters are strewn across street corners, and this is creating a hygiene issue for the children and pregnant women still living inside."{{cite news |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=October 20, 2014 |title=Vox Sentences: The ISIS battle you should know about |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/10/20/7024485/vox-sentences-isis-kobane-syria-kurd-ebola-clear |access-date=March 8, 2020 }} She later wrote about ISIS in Pakistan.{{cite book | last = Jalalzai | first=Musa Khan | date= October 1, 2015| title= The prospect of Nuclear Jihad in South Asia | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yfwdCwAAQBAJ&dq=kiran+nazish+ISIS | location=Pakistan | publisher = Algora Publishing | page = 239 | isbn=978-1628941678}} Nazish produced reports on civilians trapped in Aleppo during 2016.{{Cite news | last=Nazish | first=Kiran | date= December 28, 2016 | title= Aleppo's calamity leaves the burning question: where is humanity in 2016? | url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/aleppos-calamity-leaves-burning-question-what-humanity-2016}} Her work focused on the plight of the civilians.{{cite news | last=Nazish | first=Kiran | date=December 13, 2016 | title= Aleppo civilians facing execution plead, 'Oh, God, help us' | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/13/reports-civilian-executions-besieged-aleppo/95365222/}}

Nazish covered Turkey's curfews and their impact on Kurdish towns.{{cite news | last=Nazish | first = Kiran | title = the political game and the humanitarian crisis | url= https://en.qantara.de/content/inside-kobani-the-political-game-and-the-humanitarian-crisis | access-date=March 10, 2020}} "A 24-hour curfew was imposed on the town of about 130,000 people last December, and was only lifted this month. Residents who had fled the violence were allowed to return to Cizre on March 2, but many quickly discovered they had little to come home to.", she wrote in one piece.{{cite news |last=Nazish |first=Kiran |date=March 13, 2016 |title=Cizre in ruins as Turkey lifts curfew on Kurdish towns |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/cizre-ruins-turkey-lifts-curfew-kurdish-towns-160312113030597.html |location=Cizre |access-date=March 3, 2020 }}

She was the Daniel Pearl fellow in 2014, at which time she worked at The New York Times.{{cite web | title = 2014 FELLOW KIRAN NAZISH | website = danielpearl.org | url = http://www.danielpearl.org/home/projects/daniel-pearl-journalism-fellowship/2014-fellow-kiran-nazish/ | access-date = January 1, 2020 | archive-date = July 5, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170705134331/http://www.danielpearl.org/home/projects/daniel-pearl-journalism-fellowship/2014-fellow-kiran-nazish/ | url-status = dead }}. While at the newspaper, Nazish focused on terrorism courts in Manhattan, the NYPD and the New York Muslim community. Nazish contributed reporting at the foreign desk.{{cite web | title = KIRAN NAZISH FELLOWSHIP ARTICLES | website = danielpearl.org | url = http://www.danielpearl.org/home/projects/daniel-pearl-journalism-fellowship/kiran-nazish-articles/ | access-date = January 10, 2020 | archive-date = July 5, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170705151333/http://www.danielpearl.org/home/projects/daniel-pearl-journalism-fellowship/kiran-nazish-articles/ | url-status = dead }}

While investigating a story involving the influence of intelligence agencies on democratic institutions in Pakistan, Nazish received death threats and was forced to drop the story. In the wake of the threats, Nazish lived in self-exile for years.{{cite web | title = For Pakistan's unprotected and threatened journalists, can new legislation make a difference? | website = ifex.org | url= https://ifex.org/for-pakistans-unprotected-and-threatened-journalists-can-new-legislation-make-a-difference/ | access-date = January 2, 2020}}{{cite web | title = Pakistan's military, ISI waging 'quiet war' against journalists, activists: Expert | website = defence.az | url= http://defence.az/en/news/125730 | access-date = January 1, 2020}} She was vocal about the threats women journalists faced during the time,{{cite web | date = April 27, 2016 | title= Responding to Internet Abuse | website = cpj.org | url = https://cpj.org/2016/04/attacks-on-the-press-responding-to-internet-abuse.php}}{{cite web | date=May 6, 2012 | title= Seeking Freedom: The Press in Pakistan | url= https://bolobhi.org/seeking-freedom-the-press-in-pakistan/}}{{cite news |date=April 24, 2013 | title = A Female Journalist in Pakistan: Kiran Nazish | website = thediplomat.com | url= https://thediplomat.com/2013/04/a-female-journalist-in-pakistan-kiran-nazish/ | access-date = November 12, 2019}} and the impunity that the culprits enjoy.{{cite report | last=Rubin | first = Elizabeth | date= May 2013 | title = Roots of Impunity | chapter-url=https://cpj.org/reports/CPJ.Pakistan.Roots.of.Impunity.pdf | publisher = Committee to Protect Journalists | chapter = Journalists Killed 2003-2012 | page =41 | access-date=March 10, 2020}} A 2017 study chronicled the many ways that women journalists had been surveilled and monitored, leading to self-censorship, documenting her experiences and exile.{{cite report | date= 2017 | title = Surveillance of Female Journalists in Pakistan | url=https://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Surveillance-of-Female-Journalists-in-Pakistan-1.pdf |publisher= Digital Rights Foundation | access-date= March 10, 2020}}

As founding director of The Coalition For Women In Journalism, Nazish pioneered the first global mentorship program for mid-career women journalists. The organization emphasizes the safety, wellbeing and growth of women journalists. The organization launched in 2017{{cite news | title = Women Journalists Bring a Whole New Type of Support Based on Mentorship | website = dw.com | url= https://blogs.dw.com/womentalkonline/2018/03/07/women-journalists-bring-a-whole-new-type-of-journalism/ | access-date = January 12, 2020}} and worked as a pro-bono organization. In 2019, The Coalition For Women In Journalism received funding support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The organization initiated its advocacy, including documentation of the threats and abuse that women journalists face globally.{{cite web | title = CFWIJ receives funding support from The Craig Newmark Philanthropies | website = medium.com | url= https://medium.com/the-coalition-for-women-in-journalism/cfwij-receives-funding-support-from-the-craig-newmark-philanthropies-f70888653738 | access-date = January 5, 2020}} The Coalition established a network in several countries, each including local mentors, who offer guidance to CFWIJ Fellows in their respective local language.{{cite web | title = Coalition For Women In Journalism Offers Mentoring, Global Support | website = pressroom.rferl.org | url= https://pressroom.rferl.org/a/coalition-for-women-in-journalism/29206238.html | access-date = January 4, 2020}} Nazish sought to address gaps she saw in the industry and threats that women journalists face.{{cite news | title = CFWIJ Kurucusu Kiran Nazish: Kadın Gazetecilik Destek Ağı Oluşturmayı Hedefliyoruz | website = otekileringundemi.com | url= https://www.otekileringundemi.com/?p=50797 | access-date = January 12, 2020}}{{cite news | title = Tüm Dünyadaki Kadın Gazeteciler İçin Bir Ağ: Coalition For Women In Journalism | website = www.sivilsayfalar.org | url= http://www.sivilsayfalar.org/2019/07/24/tum-dunyadaki-kadin-gazeteciler-icin-bir-ag-coalition-for-women-in-journalism/ | access-date = January 12, 2020}} "In a precarious and largely misogynist environment, female journalists feel stressed, stuck and often tired," she said in an interview.{{cite news | title = Gazeteci kadınlar için bir destek ağı | website = journo.com.tr | url= https://journo.com.tr/gazeteci-kadinlar-icin-bir-destek-agi | access-date = February 4, 2020}} Nazish spoke at length about issues that women journalists face across the globe, and produced a research article for Women's Media Center on how women journalists work in Mexico.{{cite news | last=Nazish | first= Kiran | date = June 8, 2016 | title = Essential tools for reporting in Mexico: a notebook, camera, and contraceptive pill | url = https://www.womensmediacenter.com/women-under-siege/essential-tools-for-reporting-in-mexico-a-notebook-camera-and-contraceptive}}

Nazish is the Stanley Knowles Distinguished Professor for 2019-2020 and is teaching journalism to undergraduate students at Brandon University.{{cite news |date=October 15, 2019 |title=Visiting prof goes from conflicts to BU campus |url=https://www.brandonsun.com/local/visiting-prof-goes-from-conflicts-to-bu-campus-563111032.html |location=Canada |access-date=February 12, 2020 |archive-date=October 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022104919/https://www.brandonsun.com/local/visiting-prof-goes-from-conflicts-to-bu-campus-563111032.html |url-status=dead }} She taught courses such as Covering Conflict and International Journalism at the O.P. Jindal Global University in Delhi, India.{{cite web | title = Pakistan, India and Aman ki Asha: The year that was, and looking ahead

| website = amankiasha.com| url= http://amankiasha.com/pakistan-india-and-aman-ki-asha-the-year-that-was-and-looking-ahead/ | access-date = February 28, 2020}} She initiated journalism training programs and fellowships through her initiative at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).{{cite news |last=Shaukat |first= Aroosa | date=September 30, 2012 | title= technological understanding: LUMS project studies internet's impact | url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/444576/technological-understanding-lums-project-studies-internets-impact/}}

Nazish received an Agahi Award in 2013 for best reporting for her story on internally displaced children in Dawn{{cite news| title= For Jalozai IDPs, returning home is a far-off dream| website = dawn.com | url= https://www.dawn.com/news/803001/for-jalozai-idps-returning-home-is-a-far-off-dream |access-date = March 7, 2020}} and was nominated for other pieces during 2012. Her work was on the Foreign Policy AfPak Channels’ Top 10 of 2012. Her interview with Pakistani politician (and Prime Minister elect in 2018) Imran Khan made the list. It was the year's fifth most read piece.{{cite web | title = The AfPak channels Top 10 of 2012 | website = foreignpolicy.com | url= https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/13/the-afpak-channels-top-10-of-2012/ | access-date = March 7, 2020}}

In 2019, Splice Watch featured her on their People to Watch list for 2019.{{cite web | title = Splice Watch 2019 | website = www.splicemedia.com | url = https://www.splicemedia.com/splice-watch-2019/ | access-date = March 2, 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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