Media Tribe

Rana Ayyub from the Washington Post is listed by Time Magazine as one of ten international journalists facing the most urgent threat.

Show Notes

Rana talks about sneaking a New Yorker magazine journalist, Dexter Filkins into Kashmir, how her reporting led to the arrest of Amit Shah, the now Union Home Minister of India, her undercover sting operation into the 2002 riots in India’s Gujarat province that killed more than 1,000 people and growing up as a young Muslim girl in India.

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Follow Rana on Twitter and her stories published in The Washington Post here. You can find her book "Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a cover up" here.

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What is Media Tribe?

Media Tribe is a show that tells the story behind the storyteller. It's an opportunity to step into the shoes of the most respected journalists, directors and media executives.

Each episode looks at the journalist's journey into the industry, the impact they’ve had along the way and some of their most crazy experiences working in the industry. The stories that never quite made it to air!

Shaunagh interviews some of the most respected journalists, Oscar-nominated filmmakers and executives from across the globe, including Channel 4’s Jon Snow, BBC’s Kate Adie, The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize winner Malachy Browne, CNN’s Nima Elbagir and Rana Ayyub of the Washington Post to name a few.