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Name:

Waleed M. Fathi Ahmed Badran.

Date of Birth:

16.4.1966.

Place of Birth:

Cairo, Egypt.

.Nationality:

Egyptian British

Marital Status:

Married with 2daughters

Address:

8 Ocba ibn Nafaa st, Elsadat, Foum Elkhalig, Misr Elkadima, Cairo, Egypt .

TEL:

Home:002**********

Mobile:002***********

Email:

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Highest Degree Obtained:

B A of Mass communication, Faculty of Mass communication, Cairo University May 1988. My grade was very good

.Courses:

1) Workshops to improve journalist’s skills in the print media _Egyptian journalists syndicate (1988 _1993). Cairo. Egypt

2) Training course on the print media at Boston University in the United States in 1993

3) Training course on the print media with funding from the European Union in Spain in 1995

4) Training course on the print media with funding from the European Union in Belgium in 2001

5) BBC training courses (2003-2011) on the skills of writing for Online, Radio and TV, Interview skills, Ethics of the profession and Legal aspects, Managerial courses, Hostile environment courses to be able to cover in dangerous areas.

6) Investigative Journalism for trainers in Jordan in 2014.

.Languages:

Arabic (mother tongue)

English (fluent)

French (fair)

CURRENT JOB:

Editor in chief of Akhbar elyoum News website.

+ job responsibilities include:

I'm responsible for launching the site, drawing the editorial policy. Putting the Targets, the strategy, and supervising almost 200 Journalists, ITs, and Marketing staff.

-PREVIOUS JOBS:

Editor in chief of Sada elbalad News website (july 2011 - September 2011)

+ job responsibilities include:

I was responsible for launching the site, drawing the editorial policy. Putting the Targets, the strategy, and supervising almost 200 Journalists, ITs, and Marketing staff.

.Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC Arabic Service . London. UK (* LONDON 2002- 2011)

+Job responsibilities :

1) Following the latest global developments before starting work.

2) Attending editorial meetings with other platform editors to coordinate with Radio, TV, BBC English and other languages.

3) Another editorial meeting with my team to discuss what has been agreed with the editors of other platforms and distributing tasks.

4) Inform the news gathering team of the tasks the site needs from our correspondents and follow up with them.

5) Follow up the news Agencies and TV Channels as the team leader is responsible for the breaking news and SMS.

6) Review the output of the team members from different aspects.. editorially, politically, and style.

7) Coordinate leaves, training and duty trips among the team members.

8) Preparing the annual appraisal for the team members.

Experience :( Journalist for 30 years)

+Editor in chief and the owner of 24 Egypt love (always with you) about tolerance, love culture and relationships (2014 : untill now)

+News editor and Translator, Al Gomhouria newspaper (1988_1996). Egypt. ( One of the most important newspapers in Egypt

+News editor and translator, Al Sabahiya Saudi newspaper, Cairo Office ( Al Sharq Elawsat

Foundation ). 1991 (it was a human interests newspaper)

+News editor and Translator, Al Akhbar newspaper. (1996_2003). Egypt. (One of the most important newspapers in Egypt)

+News editor and Translator in the Egyptian Radio and TV union (1992_2002). Cairo. Egypt.

+News editor and Translator, DPA news agency, Cairo Office. (1994_1996)/ (2002_2003). (the German news agency).

(Job Discretion in all above: translating and editing news produced by news agencies from English into Arabic including sports, arts, medicine and science)

+Deskman, Alqabas Kuwaiti newspaper, Cairo Office (1996). I was doing proofreading. ( One of the most important newspapers in Kuwait.

.Fields of experiences and other qualifications:

_Journalism, Translation with high speed of typing

- Computer and IT skills

_ I wrote several original Online, Radio and TV stories and features

Travels:

USA (1993/2009), Morocco and Spain (1995), Tunisia (1996), Cyprus (1998), India and Pakistan (2000), Belgium (2001), Myanmar (2002), Thailand (2002), Iraq (2010),UAE (2013), Jordan (2014).

During these trips I have written many features on life in these countries. Besides, I have covered some important events such as the inauguration of President Barack Obama and the recent parliamentary elections in Iraq where I covered for online, Radio and TV.

.prizes:

Mustafa and Ali Amin Best Online Editor in Egypt in 2012 ( A prestigious press prize in Egypt)

.Special interests:

Human rights

Democracy

Economy

Middle east affairs

Political Islam

Chinese affairs

Indian affairs

EU affairs

Finally:

+++ Over the past years, I've been working as a senior journalist, My work involved use of different tools, and editorial judgment which developed my journalistic skills, language skills, translation, technical knowledge, and working within a media environment; apart from PC literacy, fast keyboard typing, coming up with contacts, and ideas for features, which were gained over my 30 experience years, which involved working with the Online, Radio and covering sometimes for TV as well. In the last years, I've been working Editor in chief for 2 news websites .. Sada elbalad and Akhbar elyoum, I've launched and supervised the whole operations in both cases and they are 2 successful stories I'm proud of.

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