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Mahmoud Abo Bakr

TV / Digital Producer
Dubai,Dubai

Summary

TV / Digital Producer with over 12 years of successful experience in Producing stories for television and digital and Gather materials In more than 12 countries across 3 continents (ِAfrica - Asia -Europa ), Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in Television and Digital industry. Strengths in write, edit and create and develop ideas backed by training in the BBC.

Overview

2
2
Languages
4
4
years of post-secondary education
19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

senior news producer

Asharq News
08.2020 - 03.2021
  • Produce news bulletins and news script for TV news shows as well as Guiding reporters and evaluating news to work on it in it as TV PKG or as topic in the news bulletins.

FIELD PRODUCER

BBC
Cairo, Egypt
08.2011 - 08.2020

Based in Cairo, Egypt but traveling regionally, I work for the BBC Arabic service, covering all beats: political, economic, cultural and major news events, to produce news reports for the BBC television and digital, radio as well as writing online articles and TV news script.

I am responsible for newsgathering, monitoring the media, analyzing content to gauge news value, arranging interviews and securing access to events, In addition to producing & writing video stories for the digital and the website.

  • In Libya 2012, I conducted interviews with militia groups and political leaders in the aftermath of the Libyan uprising.
  • In 2014, traveled to the Turkish-Syrian border one km away from the city of Kobani/ Ayn al-Arab, where I stayed for over a month to cover the fighting between Kurdish fighters and ISIS.
  • In 2016, traveled to Saudi Arabia to cover the Haj season, a year after the human stampede which caused the death of hundreds of pilgrims and raised tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
  • Also in 2016, I traveled to Erbil north of Iraq the capital city of Kurdistan Region in Iraq, to cover the Mosul military operation to take back Mosul two years after it fell under ISIS control, I was embedded with the Iraqi force in the villages of Fadiliyah, six KM from Mosul, managing to interview local military leaders and the commander of the IEDs unit, I also filmed with the Kurdish forces on the threat of ISIS snipers attempting to take control of the strategic city of Kirkuk.
  • In September 2019, traveled to Tunisia, cover the Tunisian presidential elections, I was responsible for live coverage of the presidential elections, as well as produce TV/Digital stories.
  • In June 2019, traveled to Sudan for a month to cover events in Khartoum, where I produced series for TV/Digital stories on events in Sudan, protests and rebels s demands, as well as negotiations between Forces of Freedom and Change opposition (FFC) and Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC).

ACTING EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC
01.2011 - 01.2020

Acted as the BBC’s Arabic TV newsroom executive producer in the BBC’s headquarters in London, UK carrying out the following tasks: Writing news bulletins and news script for TV news shows; developing expert knowledge of technical TV and radio production programs such as Final Cut, Field video production equipment, Audio Adobe Edition and ENPS new.

Produce TV news bulletins for Asharq News HQ in Dubai, carrying out the following tasks: Writing news bulletins and news script for TV news shows; developing expert knowledge of technical TV production programs such iNEWS and VIZ STORY & MCUX.

Education

Faculty of Arts - undefined

Cairo University
01.2005 - 01.2009

Skills

    Story teller

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Digital Projects

On 2018, I produced a digital Project (multimedia) for the BBC about Cairo, how it evolved during the last century to become a Mega city and how Egyptians now live in different neighborhoods including slums, In this project, we focused on how to present a press story that includes numbers, statistics, and testimonials about Cairo’s development, In addition to the maps that helped us provide distinct and attractive visual content.

On 2018, I produced a digital project (multimedia) for the BBC about a new type of addiction, far worse than Heroin or Cocaine, which is the addiction of pain killers/pain relief pills and PTSD medications. I reached recovering addicts and experts in combating addiction, in addition to presenting the government's efforts in combating addiction in Egypt. We won a BBC award for this project.

We focused on the human part in dealing with addiction. We provided testimonies for recovered people from addiction, where they presented their story with addiction, in addition to the opinions of specialists and government officials in the field of drug addiction control.

Software

Final Cut Pro

VIZ

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 8 people in the development of multimedia project ( ربع حبة ترامادول )
  • Collaborated with team of 10 people in the development of multimedia project ( القاهرة: الخروج من العشوائيات)
  • Collaborated with team of 3 people in the development of multimedia project ( مسيحيو السودان يأملون في مستقبل أفضل)

Timeline

senior news producer

Asharq News
08.2020 - 03.2021

FIELD PRODUCER

BBC
08.2011 - 08.2020

ACTING EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC
01.2011 - 01.2020

Faculty of Arts - undefined

Cairo University
01.2005 - 01.2009
Mahmoud Abo BakrTV / Digital Producer