Ahtesham Azhar

Experience

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  Daily Times Pakistan

  Feb 2011 - Jun 2014

  Staff Reporter

  Story writing on different subjects including:EducationCultureEnvironmentPoliticsGeneral ElectionsSocial IssuesHealthPower Sectorand Others

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  Scottsdale Chronicle

  Aug 2014 - May 2015

  News Reporter

  • Reporting on general issues.• Coverage of student issues on campus.• Photography for news articles.• Story idea pitching to Editor-in-Chief • Opinion Writing• Contribution to Northeast Valley News website.• The link is mentioned below• https://nevalleynews.org/staff_name/ahtesham-azhar/

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  92 News HD

  Sept 2015 - Jun 2017

  Correspondent

  • Review and evaluate notes taken about event aspects in order to isolate pertinent facts and details.• Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories.• Present live or recorded commentary via broadcast media.• Discuss issues with editors to establish priorities or positions.• Determine a story's emphasis, length, and format, and organize material accordingly.• Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.• Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements.• Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas.• Gather information about events through research, interviews, experience, or attendance at political, news, sports, artistic, social, or other functions. Show less

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  GNN

  Jun 2017 - May 2022

  News Reporter

  • Research and analyze background information related to stories in order to be able to provide complete and accurate information.• Report news stories for the broadcast, describing the background and details of events.• Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas.• Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories.• Gather information about events through research, interviews, experience, or attendance at political, news, sports, artistic, social, or other functions.• Edit or assist in editing videos for broadcast.• Present live or recorded commentary via broadcast media.• Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.• Scriptwriting, feature writing, and internal/external communication.• Building relations to have better knowledge of topics. Show less

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  TalentVerse

  May 2022 - May 2023

  Public Relations Manager
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  TekRevol

  May 2022 - now

  • Managing the PR team, setting up targets of team members, and creating team KPIs.• Strategic planning of the PR activities to increase brand equity, brand awareness.• Conducting co-branding activities to develop partnership opportunities.• Planning and execution of thought leadership plans for the company’s founders.• Research based article submission on high PR websites (Entrepreneur, Forbes, Hackernoon, Inc, and others) from the profiles of the leadership.• Generating content marketing ideas to grow company’s LinkedIn page, founders’ personal LinkedIn profile.• Community building and management with the help of different PR activities.• Technology for Change Podcast production (Guest research, reach out, guest finalization topic finalization)• Utilization of podcast content by creating short videos from episodes key takeaways.• Coordination with Design, Brand, and Marketing teams.• Arrange public appearances, lectures, contests, or exhibits for clients to increase product or service awareness or to promote goodwill.• Applying for tech-based awards on behalf of TekRevol (Inc 5000, Timmy Award, Dot Com Award and etc). Show less

  • PR Manager and Brand Coordinator

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Digital PR Manager & Strategist

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Public Relations Specialist

    May 2022 - Dec 2022
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  ServeEasy

  Apr 2023 - Dec 2024

  Partnership Development Specialist