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Azmat Khan is an award-winning digital journalist working to fuse righteous journalism and innovative storytelling online.

She is a freelance investigative journalist. She has previously worked for BuzzFeed, and was senior digital producer and reporter with Al Jazeera America’s flagship news program America Tonight, where she was responsible for leading the program’s digital strategy and team, and reporting in-depth original stories online.

From 2010 to 2013, Khan was a digital producer and reporter for PBS’s flagship public affairs series FRONTLINE. Under some of the highest editorial standards in journalism, she reported hundreds of digital investigative stories and produced dozens of interactive projects spanning wide-reaching topics ranging from the financial crisis and the influence of money in political campaigns to the civil war in Syria and Al Qaeda’s stronghold in Yemen.

In 2013, Khan produced The Bombing of al-Bara, an immersive digital film for FRONTLINE about the aftermath of Syrian government air strikes on civilians. During the Egyptian revolution in 2011, she was the field producer in Cairo for the FRONTLINE report The Brothers, investigating the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in the uprising and its political prospects after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.

At FRONTLINE, Khan also worked to expand and integrate the series’ broadcast, web and new media initiatives by creating new collaborations and digital partnerships, building audience engagement and experimenting in digital storytelling. She senior produced the digital content for 35 FRONTLINE films and helped grow the series’ digital audience by more than 75 percent. In 2012, FRONTLINE received the award for “General Excellence in Online Journalism – Small” from the Online News Association.

Previously, she was an on-air reporter in 2008 and 2009 with Express 24/7 in Lahore, Pakistan, a researcher with the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. and a user operations analyst with Facebook in Palo Alto, Calif.

Khan also serves on the board of governors of the Overseas Press Club and frequently speaks about how journalists can leverage innovative digital platforms in storytelling.

In 2012, she was selected for CNN’s “New Guard,” honoring “the next generation of newsmakers,” for Foreign Policy’s “Womerati,” women to follow on international affairs, and for the Huffington Post’s “50 People In Media You Should Subscribe to on Facebook.” She also serves on the board of the Overseas Press Club.

Khan received an MSt. in women’s studies from Oxford University, where she was a Clarendon Scholar, and a B.A. in political science and women’s studies from the University of Michigan. She has also studied abroad at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Find her on Twitter @AzmatZahra or on Facebook.