Fahhd Husain started his career as a journalist in 2007 at Geo English, a channel that belonged to the Jang Group, Pakistan’s largest media house. There, he was posted to the ticker desk and this helped him develop a better news sense as he would receive information in its crudest form and then polish or [...]

Emad Mekay’s first story as an intern at the only English-language newspaper in Cairo was about children peddling tissue paper at the city’s suffocating traffic stops. He found this ability to expose injustice to be intoxicating, and that interest has defined his career. After graduating from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1991, Mekay was [...]

One day when he was a teenager, Girma Fantaye picked up a newspaper that had been discarded near his home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He’d never read writing full of analysis and description. The writing ran counter to everything he’d learned in the suffocating dictatorships of Ethiopia – be silent and don’t question. He was [...]

As the son of a sports journalist, Jorge Imbaquingo developed a deep passion for the profession. At 18, he wrote about a retiring soccer player, which led the editor of Ecuador’s leading sports magazine, Revista Estadio, to offer him a job. For three years, Imbaquingo juggled college studies and sports reporting, learning to write entertaining [...]