Journalist experienced in geo-political analysis and international news curation/writing/editing with 17 years of experience.
Checking reporters' copy for editorial and factual mistakes.
Ensuring best practices for content writing following.
Monitoring social media to provide feedback to reporters for news story topics.
World Echo is the English webnews portal whose parent newspaper is the Urdu publication Daily Kasoti.
Involved in quality assurance of proofreader amended manuscripts. Skills used include checking of grammar, spelling, usage, content errors; together with verification of facts.
Handling the International and Opinion desks.
Headed the process of sending pages for printing from news selection, editing to page designing.
Role in monitoring news according to Oman government's political sensitivities both regionally and geostrategically.
Keep a check on news developments in the Oman News Agency and wire news services for possible Oman page use.
Initiated the change of the Opinion pages into the #Trending section which focused on print-to-web connectivity features.
Worked on the NewsPress content management system and designed pages using the Adobe InDesign.
Writing a fortnightly column, 'Science of Life,' in the sister magazine Thursday
Edited articles written by writers having basic writing skills.
Liaising with potential writers and contributing writers.
Writing a general commentary article entitled 'Off the Rack columns'.
Designed pages using QuarkExpress
Involved in clinical laboratory tests and research work on kidney stone analysis.
Research work included literature review of scientific papers on the subject.
Laboratory tests included running samples for chemical composition of surgically extracted kidney stones and urine analysis for stone causing crystals.
First exposure to the Newsroom environment.
Involved in honing editorial and subbing skills through guidance of senior journalists