Waseem Mirza

Waseem Mirza (born in Peterborough, England) is a British TV Presenter, Screen Actor and Sci-Tech Journalist. [1][2]

Broadcasting career

Waseem Mirza is an award-winning British TV Presenter and Reporter with TV acting credits including the BBC drama series Doctors. He was hired by BBC News as a TV News Journalist while he was still studying in his final year at the University of Lincoln. By the time of graduation, he'd already worked for BBC News 24, BBC World News Channel and the BBC Asian Network before joining BBC Look East in the East of England.[3][4][5][6]

He has worked on a range of programmes from regional TV news in the East of England and Home Counties, to the BBC's flagship international technology news feature show Click. He's been named TV Hotshot by Broadcast (magazine),[5] as part of their influential annual list of Britain's top TV talent under 29.[5][6]

Before his debut in British TV News and Factual Television, he landed a Day Player role as a Double for the daytime BBC drama series "Doctors", playing the character Dr Rana Mistry, (originally played by Akbar Kurtha during his undergraduate years. He had already appeared as an uncredited Extra, then as a Featured actor as "Boyfriend" filmed in a Mothercare store in Birmingham. The drama series was being filmed at a fictional General Practice surgery at BBC Pebble Mill before its relocation to a new Drama Village at Selly Oak. Waseem also co-presented a National Film & Television School pilot entertainment show, part-funded by the BBC. As a teenager, he appeared as himself on the Nickelodeon show: School of the Week presented by Jenny Powell, when it featured his school Thomas Deacon Academy (then known as Deacon's School).

He is known to be an electric car advocate having covered the latest developments in the technology for BBC Television. His electric driving adventure went viral among tech-lifestyle blogs when reporting from a Motorway Service Station in South East Britain.

He is a member of the Association of British Science Writers and is listed on Spotlight.

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References
  1. Brackmills improvement scheme 'boosts estate business' BBC News, Published 3 April 2013, Retrieved 14 May 2019
  2. Waseem Mirza, 28, broadcast journalist (Waseem Mirza's profile as a journalist) Broadcast (UK magazine), Published 22 August 2008, Retrieved 14 May 2018
  3. WASEEM LANDS HIS DREAM JOB IN TV NEWS (includes Waseem Mirza profile as a TV News journalist) University of Lincoln News website, Published 19 July 2002, Retrieved 14 May 2019
  4. Waseem Mirza, 28, broadcast journalist (Waseem Mirza's profile as a journalist) Broadcast (UK magazine), Published 22 August 2008, Retrieved 14 May 2018
  5. Journalism graduate is a broadcasting hot shot (Waseem Mirza profile) University of Lincoln News website, Published September 2008, Retrieved 14 May 2019
  6. Laura Barton (15 August 2001). "Make your own way (profile of Waseem Mirza)". The Guardian (UK newspaper). Retrieved 14 May 2019.


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