Ahmed Assar
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Ahmed Assar’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Ahmed Assar joined Reuters Television in1994 as a producer in Cairo, just as Islamist militants were ramping up their attacks on the Egyptian government. A year later, he was promoted to Senior Producer for Egypt, Libya and Sudan, also looking after RVN’s coverage of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Bahrain. For seven years, Ahmed tracked the rise and fall of Egypt’s insurgency, its relatively short-lived economic boom, the Islamist uprising in Algeria, several rounds of Israeli-Palestinian peace …
Interview
See all 14 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
TV coordinator
Have you ever used a typewriter?
yes
How is social media changing news?
Made news outlets in need to provide intelligent information rather that stating the obvious which anyone with a smartphone or internet can