Summary

Dr Tehreem Azeem is a journalist, communication strategist and academic. She has over nine years of experience in journalism, media development and advocacy for gender equality. Previously, she worked with Dunya News, DW Urdu, Independent Urdu, Shirkat Gah - Women Resource Center, and Global Neighbourhood for Media Innovations. She has written extensively on gendered experiences, structural barriers and genderd discrimination, women's empowerment and social justice for national and international media. Her work in these area was widely read and well received. Her broader journalistic work has appeared in national and international publications including Dawn, The Nation, Newsline Magazine, The Diplomat, Asia Democracy Chronicles, The Freethinkers Magazine, BBC Urdu, DW Urdu, and Independent Urdu. She wrote a travelogue on China for Dawn Urdu and produced a series of videos on Chinese culture and society for DW Urdu Social Media. Currently, she writes a fortnightly blog on higher education for Independent Urdu and is affiliated with the Global Investigative Journalism Network. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in media, religion and media discourse, social movements, and mediated intimacy. Her PhD thesis examined the framing of the Aurat March in its initial years in Pakistani media. She is also interested in how women articulate desire and intimacy within digital spaces, examining questions of online self-representation, digital sexual citizenship, and the politics of visibility that shape women's presence in networked publics. She holds a Bachelor's in Communication Studies with a focus on development journalism from the University of the Punjab (2014), a Master's in International Journalism and Communication with a minor in New Media from the Communication University of China (2017), and a PhD in Communication Studies from the Communication University of China (2023). Outside her academic work, she is currently learning to swim, something she sees as a small but meaningful marker of the opportunities she has built for herself, coming from a middle-class family in the Global South.

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