Azmat Khan

Previously, she was a reporter and senior digital producer with Al Jazeera America’s flagship show America Tonight, and a digital reporter and producer for PBS’s flagship public affairs series FRONTLINE.

Her work has earned the Online News Association award for “General Excellence in Online Journalism” (small) in 2012; the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism in 2013; and an Emmy nomination in “New Approaches to Documentary Film” in 2014 for The Bombing of al-Bara, an immersive digital film Khan produced for FRONTLINE about the aftermath of Syrian air strikes on civilians.

Khan serves on the board of governors of the Overseas Press Club and frequently speaks about how journalists can leverage innovative digital platforms in storytelling. She has been selected for Foreign Policy's "Womerati", women to follow on international affairs, and for the Huffington Post's "50 People In Media You Should Subscribe to on Facebook".

Khan received an MSt. in women’s studies from Oxford University, where she was a Clarendon Scholar, and a B.A. in political science and women’s studies from the University of Michigan. She has also studied at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Find her on Twitter @AzmatZahra or on Facebook.