About

Madeeha Anwar is a TV Journalist, Web Editor and works with Voice of America in Washington, D.C.

For Madeeha, her chosen path started with a dream, the dream of becoming a journalist. Her grandfather, the late Anwaar Feroze was a prominent Pakistani journalist in the 70’s and 80’s. Madeeha’s mother, Naureen Talat Arooba is an established Urdu poetess, who started out as a newscaster on PTV. Having such inspirations at home since early childhood, Madeeha always knew what she wanted to pursue in the future.

Madeeha earned her Master’s Degree in Mass Communication from Punjab University, Lahore.

Her journalistic career started at ARY News (formerly ARY One World) at the Dubai headquarters where she worked as a news anchor. Later she worked as a reporter for ARY Lahore’s bureau where Madeeha got a chance to polish her reporting skills and learned how to execute ideas for feature stories. Madeeha’s command of the Urdu language, script writing skills and interest towards social issues helped her produce phenomenal feature stories.

Madeeha’s next move in career was to join the pioneering team of ‘Express News’ in July, 2007. She was based in Islamabad and covered parliament proceedings and focused on political reporting at Express News.

In 2008, Madeeha moved to Washington, D.C. and joined the Urdu Service of Voice of America. Madeeha became a part of the TV team producing a half an hour daily show ‘Khabron Se Aage’. Madeeha combined her skills as an anchor, a reporter and a producer on that show. Madeeha adopted new techniques for reporting as well as honed her editing and production skills. Starting from the concept of a story until the execution of a final product, Madeeha takes care of all the aspects. She has a proficiency to work both on Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer.

In addition to political reporting, she introduced multiple aspects of the Pakistani American community, telling many success stories of pursuing the ‘American Dream’ as well as the hardships that some Pakistani Americans had to endure.

Madeeha started her endeavor as a Web Editor for UrduVOA.com in 2012. She loves her role as a Web Editor which is challenging yet interesting at the same time.

Madeeha is an ardent admirer of literature and loves to write. She is obsessed with nature photography, traveling and exploring the world.