Omar Obeidat

**** ******** **.

Burke, VA *****

USA

Tel: 001**********

E mail: ac69ou@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Data

Date of Birth: December 2nd, 1971

Nationality: American

Employment

Senior producer/ MBN - USA August 2010 – Present

DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES:

Review news wires and other credible sources for potential stories.

Determine stories’ format and final shape.

Write and Assign stories for team members.

Review all scripts for assigned newscasts to ensure they adhere to broadcast standards

Oversee all quality assurances and live content material.

Ensure that all additional production details are completed, including graphics.

Prepare rundown for newscast and any assigned special event coverage.

Write headlines and teasers.

Decide what guests and reporters needed to appear in the newscasts.

Suggest stories to be covered by the station’s correspondents around the world.

Contribute story ideas on a daily, weekly and long-range basis.

Pursue and execute breaking news.

Supervise performance and development of assigned broadcast team members; this include anchors, producers, writers, associate producers and production assistants.

Conduct annual performance planning for each team member.

Provide appropriate and timely on-going performance feedback to assigned team members to continually improve the quality of the broadcast.

In consultation with Human Resources, prepare annual Performance Planning and Appraisal Report for assigned team members

News Producer / MBN - USA April 2006 – August 2010

DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES:

Review news wires and other credible sources for potential stories.

Determine stories’ format and final shape.

Write and Assign stories for team members.

Review all scripts for assigned newscasts to ensure they adhere to broadcast standards

Oversee all quality assurances and live content material.

Ensure that all additional production details are completed, including graphics.

Prepare rundown for newscast and any assigned special event coverage.

Write headlines and teasers.

Decide what guests and reporters needed to appear in the newscasts.

Suggest stories to be covered by the station’s correspondents around the world.

Contribute story ideas on a daily, weekly and long-range basis.

Pursue and execute breaking news.

Press Attaché' / Embassy of Jordan / Washington DC April 2005 – April 2006

Monitor the US media for any content related to the interests of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, and report this to the government of Jordan.

Contact the American journalists and producers to give them more info on what they produce and write about Jordan.

Monitor the Jordanian press and prepare extracts to the Ambassador and the diplomats in the embassy about the most important events and articles in the Jordanian press.

Press Coordinator / Good Governance Conference / Jordan 24th Jan – 7th Feb 2005

By a special request of the Attorney general in Jordan, I organized the logistics for the Jordanian and foreign media to facilitate their coverage of the conference funded by the UN.

Reporter/ field producer - JTV / Prime Ministers’ office December 1998 – April 2005

Cover the Prime ministers activities in Jordan and abroad for JTV. This includes conducting interviews with him and his counterparts from all over the world.

I’ve interviewed through all these years lots of world leaders and high ranks including Nelson Mandela of South Africa, George W Bush of the US, Yasser Arafat of the PLO, King of Jordan, Izzat Ibrahim, Taha Ramadan, Tariq Aziz of Iraq, the president of Yemen, the president of Algeria, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, the Prime Ministers of Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and lots of other politicians in the Arab world.

Executive Assistant to the Director General of JRTV August 1998–December 1998

Office manager, helping the DJ in organizing his work including preparing his meetings and keeping his

important documents.

Co-producer/ JTV July 1997- August 1998

Co-produced a successful political talk show called “Frankly from Amman”. The show was very popular as we used to have guests from all over the world to participate in it. We covered hot unprecedented areas.

My role was: bringing ideas and topics to cover, suggesting guests to participate in the show, preparing the material to the show host, and writing his intro most of the times.

News Writer August 1996 – July 1997

Writing stories to be broadcast in the news casts, and producing "in house" reports.

Courses

•Preventing harassment in the workplace. a 12 hour course by AMA Nov. 18-25, 2014

•Communication training course by AMA /Springfield Feb. 19th- 20th. 2013

•A series of Broadcast Journalism training courses /

Colombia University / School of Journalism 2007 – 2013

•ESL and American Studies Course/JHU/Washington DC June 13th-July 21ST 2005

•Broadcast Journalism Course/Thompson Foundation /UK June21st –Sep.11th 2004

•Worked for one week in Norwich/UK at BBC station. August 2004

•Worked under a two week project in the USA funded by the DoS July 2003

•Regional Television News Reporting Workshop by VOA May 1997

Democracy in Israel / the Role of Mass Media /ISD Feb 1997

Education

BSc In Agricultural Engineering .Jordan University, Amman, Jordan 1989 – 1994

Languages

`- Fluent in spoken and written Arabic

`- Fluent in spoken and written English

Computer Skills

Very skilled: ENPS, Edios editing systems, Internet research.

Interests & Activities

News, current affairs, history, politics, writing poems, and coin & stamp collecting.

Memberships

Member of Agricultural Engineers Association - Jordan

Member of the Royal Society for the Conversation of Nature – Jordan.

Member of the National Geographic Society – USA.

Member of the ADC – USA

Member of the Smithsonian Institution - USA

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