Rahul Basharat
Verified
As seen in:
Pakistan Television Corporation,
The Nation (Pakistan),
China Economic Net,
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Covers:
Health, education, human rights, climate change, social issues and politics
Doesn't Cover:
N/A
Journalist at Pakistan TV @PakTVGlobal | Prev. @The_Nation | Fellow at CIPCC 🇨🇳, China & @ICFJ, USA | Opinion: Personal
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Sub-editor
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
Rapidly
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Mohammad Hanif
What does it mean to be a journalist?
A worthy invention and facility for writing stories
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
email
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Ms Word
What's your favorite social network?
twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Mohammed Hanif and Christina Lamb
Why did you become a journalist?
I am a career journalist
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Exclusively filed story on a public sector university president who misusing his authority awarded a bachelor degree in absentia
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
There is no shortcut in journalism
When's the best time to pitch you?
09:am to 11:am
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Forced conversion
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Writing on life in slums
What's your favorite drink?
Star Bucks
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Mobile
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
One hundred years of solitude
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That it is not of national level beat
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