Shamim Chowdhury is a British

British people

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 television and print journalist

Journalism

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Education and career

Shamim Chowdhury has a BSc

Bachelor of Science

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 from Queen Mary, University of London

Queen Mary, University of London

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, an MSc

Master of Science

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 from Birkbeck College

Birkbeck, University of London

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 and a post-graduate diploma

Postgraduate diploma

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 in Newspaper Journalism from City University London.

She currently works for, Al Jazeera English, where she performs a number of roles, including news editing, producing and occasional reporting. Her previous television experience includes work at the BBC

BBC

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, ITN and Sky News

Sky News

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. She has also written for many British national newspapers, including The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph

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, and The Independent

The Independent

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. She has also had her own newspaper column for The Bangla Mirror.

External links

• Shamim Chowdhury: We cannot stop this extremism on our own. Shamim Chowdhury. The Independent
  The Independent
  The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
  
  . Friday, 7 July 2006
• Al Jazeera English - News. Shamim Chowdhury
• My Action Aid Profile