Habiba Nosheen

Habiba Nosheen
حبیبہ نوشین
Born
Habiba Nosheen

Lahore, Pakistan
NationalityDual national (American & Canadian)
OccupationInvestigative Journalist
A Peabody Award for "What Happened at Dos Erres?"
Sebastian Rotella, Habiba Nosheen, Ana Arana, Brian Reed, Julie Snyder and Ira Glass

Habiba Nosheen (Urdu: حبیبہ نوشین) is an Investigative journalist.[1] Her film Outlawed in Pakistan premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013 and was called "among the standouts" of Sundance by the Los Angeles Times. A longer version of the film aired on PBS Frontline. Nosheen's 2012 radio documentary, "What Happened at Dos Erres?" aired on This American Life and was called "a masterpiece of storytelling" by The New Yorker.

Nosheen has received numerous awards for her reporting including the Peabody, three Emmy awards.

In 2017-2019, Nosheen was the co-host of CBC Television's newsmagazine series The Fifth Estate.[2] She was the first person of colour to be named the co-host of The Fifth Estate in three decades.

In 2022, Nosheen released an 8 part investigative podcast series with Spotify and Gimlet Media called Conviction: The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan.[3] The podcast is a three year long investigation into the disappearance of a Canadian woman who vanished in 2006 without a trace.[4]

  1. ^ "Habiba Nosheen". ProPublica.Org. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
  2. ^ "Emmy winner joins CBC's fifth estate". Toronto Star, September 23, 2016.
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  4. ^ "HAMILTON SPECTATOR: Podcast dives deep into Nuseiba Hasan true crime mystery". The Hamilton Spectator. 16 March 2022.