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Rabia Noor
Dr. Rabia Noor is an international award winning broadcast journalist, academician, researcher and video blogger based in Lahore, Pakistan. She has completed her PhD in Communication Studies from University of the Punjab, Lahore. She has presented her paper “Female TV Journalists Defying Gendered Newsroom Culture” in the Academic Conference on International Press Freedom Day 2019 grand event in Addis Ababa organized by UNESCO. She has also participated as opening panel speaker in the first Mobile Journalism Conference 2019 in Asia, held in Bangkok.She has achieved inaugural Jamal Khashoggi Award for Courageous Journalism. She is among the five recipients of the award around the globe and the only Asian journalist who has been recognized internationally for this award. She has also received national “Journalism Award 2017” as a best broadcast journalist working on women empowerment and ILO Award in 2013. She has also participated in the International Visitors Leadership Program 2018 and represented Pakistan in the United States. She has also presented her paper in the International Conference on Safety of Journalists in Oslo, Norway. She has been working with media industry for 17 years. She had worked in a mainstream news channel in Pakistan, ARY News, as a special correspondent and producer for 12 years. She has worked for a news channel Waqt News, as a reporter and a newspaper The Post as an In-charge for Infotainment desk. She has also devised courses for different media schools in Pakistan. She is now working as Assistant Professor in School of Creative Arts, University of Lahore.