Waseem Mirza is a presenter and reporter for BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 television and radio.

Broadcasting career

Waseem “..combines a confident on-air presence with a sharp news instinct.” - Broadcast Magazine

He is an award winning TV presenter and reporter. He has worked on a range of programmes from regional TV news with BBC Look East, to the BBC's flagship international technology news feature show Click

Click (TV series)

Click is a weekly BBC television programme covering news and recent developments in the world of consumer technology, presented by Spencer Kelly....

. In 2008, he was named TV Hotshot by Broadcast, as part of their influential annual list of Britain's top TV talent under 29. In 2006 he was nominated in two categories for the GG2 Asian Media Awards and in 2005 he won a special recogonition award from the Business Mentoring Programme in Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

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Scoops include forcing a change in NHS

National Health Service

The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

 Trust policy after an MRSA expose in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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, and Mirza

Mirza

Mirza , is of Persian origin, denoting the rank of a high nobleman or Prince. It is usually translated into English as a royal or imperial Prince of the Blood...

 was the first TV journalist on the scene when devastating floods hit a village near Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

. On the lighter side, he has joined a Midlands

English Midlands

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 teenager setting a new world record in windsurfing across the English Channel

English Channel

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, and filing the report for BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 Newsround

Newsround

Newsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children...

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Waseem can be seen and heard exclusively on the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, reporting for BBC1 viewers across the East of England

East of England

The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Essex has the highest population in the region.Its...

 including three of the Home Counties

Home Counties

The home counties is a term which refers to the counties of South East England and the East of England which border London, but do not include the capital city itself...

. He also regularly fronts the prime-time 8pm news bulletin on BBC1. Waseem is an experienced multimedia

Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

 performer - often filing reports and presenting the news on TV, radio and online. He is also something of a thespian, having landed a role as a double for the daytime BBC drama series "Doctors", during his undergraduate years.

Sources and references

• http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/waseem-mirza-28-broadcast-journalist/1805942.article http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/waseem-mirza-28-broadcast-journalist/1805942.article
• http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/publications/contact-november2008w.pdfJournalism Broadcasting Hotshot, pg 16, Contact Magazine, University of Lincoln, November 2008 edition
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_5100000/newsid_5108200/5108294.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=5108294&bbcws=1 BBC News
• http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2008/09/waseem1.htm http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2008/09/waseem1.htm
• http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2002/07/waseemgrad.htm http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2002/07/waseemgrad.htm
• http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/analysis-britains-lost-talent/1805151.article Broadcast magazine