{"id":20501,"date":"2020-09-03T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p08py6lc"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:05:00","slug":"naziha-syed-ali-pakistans-fearless-female-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/09\/03\/naziha-syed-ali-pakistans-fearless-female-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Naziha Syed Ali: Pakistan\u2019s fearless female reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"Journalist Naziha Syed Ali has made a career out of investigating sometimes scandalous abuses of power in her native Pakistan. Publishing in the country\u2019s main English-language daily newspaper, \u201cDawn\u201d, she has reported \u2013 often undercover \u2013 on land confiscation, illegal organ harvesting and sectarian violence. Her work has prompted significant action against wrongdoers, most notably when she exposed malpractice in a major Karachi property development, resulting in a Supreme Court case and payments worth billions of dollars. Being female, she says, can help - if only because Pakistan\u2019s patriarchal society is so sceptical about women\u2019s ability to make an impact, which can lull male subjects into a false sense of security. Nevertheless, her job is arduous and frequently dangerous. In this interview for Assignment with Owen Bennett-Jones, she explains what drives her to work in one of the world\u2019s toughest journalistic beats. \n\nProducer: Michael Gallagher\nEditor: Bridget Harney\n\n(Image: Naziha Syed Ali gives an interview at a journalism conference in 2017. Credit: Glenn Chong)\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p08py6lc\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Naziha Syed Ali has made a career out of investigating sometimes scandalous abuses of power in her native Pakistan. Publishing in the country\u2019s main English-language daily newspaper, \u201cDawn\u201d, she has reported \u2013 often undercover \u2013 on land conf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598510,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions\/1598510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}