Mehdi Hasan (born 1979) is a British political journalist, broadcaster and author.

As a journalist and author, Hasan is the co-author of a biography of Ed Miliband and the political editor of the UK version of The Huffington Post. From a British Indian background, he is the presenter of Al Jazeera English shows The Café and Head to Head and UpFront.

In 2015, Hasan moved to Washington DC to work full time for Al Jazeera on UpFront.

Education

Hasan was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, a day independent school for boys at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, near the town of Northwood in North West London, followed by Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and graduated in 2000.

Life and career

Hasan worked as a researcher and then producer on LWT's Jonathan Dimbleby programme, with a brief period in between on BBC1's The Politics Show. Following this, he became deputy executive producer on Sky's breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs. He was appointed senior editor (politics) at the New Statesman in late spring of 2009, where he stayed until May 2012, then becoming political director of The Huffington Post website.

Mehdi Hasan may refer to:

See also

Mehdi Hasan (born 3 February 1990) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Hyderabad. He made his Twenty20 debut on 10 January 2016 in the 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

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Mehdi Hasan is a Pakistani left-wing journalist, media historian and professor of the Journalism and the Mass communication at the Beaconhouse National University. He is the current vice-chairperson of the (Punjab) of the Human Rights Commission, Punjab Branch, and the Dean of School of Media and Communication at Beaconhouse National University. He is one of Pakistan’s more prominent communication experts with a specialization in political analysis.

One of few media historians of the country, Mehdi is a regular commentator and panellist for news channels and radio stations where he brings his academic research into social context. His book The Political History of Pakistan is a widely used source of reference by journalists and producers.

A long-time human rights activist and member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s Governing Council, Dr. Mehdi Hasan has written many papers and participated in multiople seminars.

He holds a Ph.D. in mass communication, Punjab University, ‘Role of Press in Formation in Public Opinion 1857-1947’, an M.A. in journalism, Punjab University, and was a Fulbright Scholar (1990) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he conducted research on ‘Coverage of Third World Countries in the American Mass Media’. He has published papers in America and Pakistan