Salman Siddiqui is a journalist/writer/editor with several years of experience of working in various news media platforms, including 24/7 wire services, online news portals, daily newspapers and magazines.
He has worked as a journalist around the world: Germany, Turkey, Cyprus, Qatar, Pakistan, and the U.K. He has also been on assignment to Sri Lanka and the U.A.E.
He has donned several hats in his journalistic career, including that of a senior copy editor, news desk manager, investigative reporter, multimedia producer and staff magazine writer.
He has a Master of Arts degree from the renowned School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has studied multimedia journalism in Berlin and his early education was done in Kuwait and Pakistan.
He has written hundreds of reports, features and articles during his career as a journalist since 2003.
Some prominent personalities he has exclusively interviewed (or covered events involving them) include: Music composer Yanni, British artist Damien Hirst, U.K.’s Foreign Secretary (then Defence Secretary) Philip Hammond, Master Chef Gordon Ramsay, late Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty, French climate change expert Nicolas Hulot, U.K.’s Prince Charles, (now ex) Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, WWE superstar wrestler R-Truth, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, President of the Swiss Council of States (Senate) Filippo Lombardi, the late fashion icon L’Wren Scott, Qatar Airways CEO Al-Baker, ex-Afghan president Hamid Karzai, ex-Tunisian president Dr. Moncef and Committee to Protect Journalists Executive Director Joel Simon among many others.
He is currently in Berlin and mostly works for a major public broadcaster in Germany. He worked as a senior journalist/copy editor for a top media group in Turkey between 2014-2018; he was as news editor for a paper in Cyprus in 2020 and also did remote work involving writing/editing B2B and B2C American business publications.
He was in Doha at a key moment in its history, where he witnessed (and reported on) Shiekh Hamad handing over his rein to his son Shiekh Tamim, who is the current Emir of Qatar. This power transition took place after an 18-year gap in Qatar.
He travelled all the way to Colombo, Sri Lanka in December 2013 to investigate abuses in the recruitment of migrant workers for Qatari companies.
Between 2007 and 2012, he reported on almost all suicide bomb blast and terrorism related cases that took place in Karachi, Pakistan. His reporting has not been limited to witnessing the horrific scenes at the site of the attack, but also he has written dozens of follow up stories about progress into investigations of those cases. Also, he covered numerous high-profile political events in Pakistan during the same time period.
Get in touch via email (newdatatrends@gmail dot com), if you wish to hire him for an editing/reporting job, or if you have a story to share with him.
