Shafagh Laghai

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Shafagh Laghai (* in Iran ) is a German-Iranian television journalist and worked from 2013 to 2017 for Westdeutscher Rundfunk as a correspondent in the ARD studio in Nairobi , Kenya . Your reports were mainly broadcast in Weltspiegel . Shafagh Laghai attracted increased attention with a report on refugees in northern Nigeria, where the terrorist group Boko Haram spreads fear and terror and kills through the villages. In the village of Chibok she was one of the very few journalists able to work for the ARD.

Career

Shafagh Laghai grew up in Berlin , where she also studied journalism , political science and Iranian studies. During her studies she worked as a freelance reporter and editor for Deutsche Welle TV . She visited Afghanistan , Cambodia and Pakistan for Deutsche Welle .

Shafagh Laghai started her professional career in 2008 as a volunteer at WDR in Cologne. She then worked as a freelance writer and later as an editor a. a. in the WDR Tagesschau editorial team, the ARD morning magazine and in the business editorial office of the WDR. Since January 2013 she has been a correspondent at Studio Nairobi.

Awards

Shafagh Laghai was nominated for the 2017 Grimme Prize in the "Journalistic Achievement" category.

The reason for the nomination states:

"The ARD correspondent Shafagh Laghai for her excellently researched, differentiated and highly topical reports from regions in Central Africa that are underrepresented in the media, some of which were filmed under dangerous conditions and provide urgent information about the life and problems of broad sections of the population against the background of political developments."

- Website of the Grimme Prize

Shafagh Laghai was named “Journalist of the Year” in the “Reporter” category in 2016 by Medium magazine . The reasoning states:

“Shafagh Laghai is an ARD correspondent in Nairobi. For a long time no one has brought reports from Central Africa into the news and feature programs as persistently and present as she is. The way she analyzes political and social interrelationships is impressive. Particularly noteworthy in 2015: her report from the village of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. No foreign TV reporter succeeded in doing that before. "

- Medium magazine for journalists

She received an honorable mention at the 2016 Courage Prize of the Association of Journalists for the film Nigeria's Stolen Children .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kenya: Fear returns. In: daserste.de. January 5, 2015, accessed October 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ "Everything was burned down". Report from Northern Nigeria. In: tagesschau.de. January 31, 2015, accessed October 12, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Kenya - mobile phone development factor. In: dw.com. December 9, 2013, accessed October 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ ARD morning magazine. Interlocutor. In: programm.ard.de. January 26, 2015, accessed September 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Shafagh Laghai. Studio Nairobi. In: wdr.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  6. ^ The ARD correspondent Shafagh Laghai (WDR). In: grimme-preis.de. Retrieved July 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Shafagh Laghai, ARD / WDR, Category: Reporter, Place: 6th In: mmbeta.de. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Courage Prize 2016: Honorable Mentions. In: journalistinnen.de. June 4, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Exclusive to First: Nigeria's Stolen Children. In: ardmediathek.de. August 17, 2015, accessed October 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Laghai, Shafagh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Iran