Asma Abidi is a Freelance Journalist who has worked for more than 5 years in reporting and contributing to different online and digital platforms. Since 2012, she worked in the Media and communication field for different Media development institutions in Tunisia occupying various positions such as social media and TV producer, communication officer and project coordinator.

Today, she is back to academia with an enrollment in a Master in International Media Studies in Germany. Thus, She is still also working as a consultant for media-related projects and in producing various journalism formats.

Freelance Journalist and Correspondent

Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT International)

Sep. 2012 - Dec. 2018

Freelance journalist for the North Africa project Correspondents.org f, Arabic/English social Media Manager responsible of the content dissimination on different social media platforms in Correspondents.org

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Research Team Assistant

Geography Institut-University of Cologne, Germany

Mar. 2017 - Aug. 2017

Assistance for a research team working on a research project about Integration of refugees in a German cities. Tasks included interviews conduction,transcriptions,translations and content design.

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Independant Media Consultant

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2016

Independent media consultant for the Wealth of Nations project (http://www.wealth-of-nations.org). Tasks included research and evaluation of the trainings offered by the foundation to journalists across Africa.

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Tunisia Project Manager

SUNY - Research Foundation of the State University of NY at Albany, USA

Feb. 2016 - Jun. 2016

Coordination and Management of an investigative training project for a group of Tunisian journalists. The project had multiple workshops and offered partial scholarships for journalists to work on investigative stories.

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Social Media and TV Producer

BBC Media Action

Nov. 2013 - May. 2014

The design and the production of diverse TV and social media content for different programs of the Tunisian National Broadcaster as part of its cooperation with the BBC Media Action, whose mission was supporting the Youth programs production and the use of social media to reach the audiences and Production of few TV programs in the same context.

Certificate of International Journalist

Deutsche Welle Akademie, Germany

2017 - 2017

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Master of Arts in International Media Studies

University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany / Deutsche Welle Akademie

2016 - 2018

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Engineering Diploma in Applied Sciences and Technologies

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunisia- INSAT

2008 - 2013