Oqbah Adnan Al-Ahmed

Al Jazeera Media Network

Data Journalism

Bio

• TV reporter in Southeast Asia from 1998 to 2000. • One of the founding members of Al Jazeera.Net launched in early 2000. • Effectively contributed to the development of Al Jazeera.Net publishing system in 2012. • News-room supervisor and Team leader in Al Jazeera network. • Covered the war in Somalia at the end of 2006. • Covered the war in Syria from 2013- 2012. • Covered El Hajj season in 2010. • Covered the municipal elections in Turkey in 2014. • One of the first journalists in the Arab World who used the mobile journalism to cover the municipal elections in Turkey for Al Jazeera.Net.

Experience

1. Online editor (same duties of Excusive Producer), Team Leader in aljazeera.net news room- Digital division - Al-Jazeera network since June 2013 . 2. Senior journalist / news producer and Team Leader in aljazeera.net news room - Al-Jazeera channel- from June 2008 until June 2013. 3. Journalist and editor in aljazeera.net news room - Al-Jazeera channel from May 14 / May 2000 until June 2008. 4. Correspondent for the London newspaper alsharq alawsat in Islamabad (Pakistan) from November 1999 ,20 until May 13 / May 2000 during which I worked on the coverage of events in Pakistan , Afghanistan and India.