Hi, my name is Hafsa!
I currently serve as an associate producer at Here & Now, NPR’s midday news show produced out of WBUR in Boston. It is syndicated nationally to more than 450 stations and has about 5 million listeners a week. During my tenure at Here & Now, I’ve produced hundreds of thoughtful and nuanced segments covering topics ranging from the Israel-Hamas war, to the 2024 election cycle, to a series following students in the class of 2024 throughout their senior year. Most recently, I am proud of a feature I produced on a young man in Gaza who has coped with the war by focusing on fitness. I believe it highlights a story of what people on the ground were doing while violence rages around them and shines a different light on the traditional coverage that followed this war.
Prior to this role, I completed a year-long remote fellowship with WBUR in 2021. During this year, I rotated between four different news departments to learn the different aspects of public media — including newscasting, producing, managing the digital side, and reporting.
Before joining WBUR, I received my M.A. in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in December 2020.
In the summer of 2020, I was the inaugural Korva Coleman Diversity Intern at KMUW in Wichita, KS. As part of my internship I learned how to report remotely and produce daily spots that aired on KMUW 89.1. Throughout my internship, I reported on coronavirus testing, primary elections, county and city meetings that discussed important changes to COVID-19 policies, and the state of the local economy. I also contributed a timely business story to The Range, a weekly podcast. I received voice coaching and guidance from my mentors to host a newscast in my final week.
During the spring of 2019, I was an intern at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Throughout my internship, I supported the National Desk, comprised of 45 reporters and editors across the nation by doing background research, finding contacts to interview on-air, building digital story pages for the web, and drafting social media callouts. I also field-reported from rallies on the longest partial government shutdown, delved into the prevalence of blackface after the scandals in Virginia, and fact-checked President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Before covering national news with NPR, I was a radio news intern for WUSF Public Media, Tampa Bay’s regional NPR member station. I produced and cultivated news-worthy content for the website and conducted interviews and research for groundbreaking local stories. During my internship, I covered topics such as Hurricane Irma, March For Our Lives, and the Florida Legislature. Check out my Experiences tab for a breakdown of all of my journalistic work!
Some of my career focuses are to make journalism more interactive and accessible for audiences, as well as to increase coverage of the Muslim-American community and uplift underrepresented voices.
Resume available upon request.
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