Tahiat Mahboob is a multimedia journalist with a proven track record of reporting on underreported communities, educating storytellers from marginalized groups, and developing sustainable newsroom strategies with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
She is proficient in producing compelling multimedia stories, developing platform-specific content, analyzing viewership data, and using digital strategies to boost audience engagement. Over the last two decades, her work has been shaped by an insatiable curiosity and a penchant for taking deep dives down interesting rabbit holes.
Tahiat is a fellow in the Online News Association 2021 Women’s Leadership Accelerator and an instructor at the Video Business Accelerator hosted at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in partnership with ICFJ and the Facebook Journalism Project. She is also a member of the Education Committee at The Video Consortium, a global nonprofit network for top emerging voices in video journalism and documentary film.
Tahiat has previously reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Global News, CTV News, Asia Society and The Daily Star on a range of beats from politics to pop music. Her freelance work has appeared in The International Legal Foundation, The Juilliard School, The New York Times, The Chamber Music Society for Lincoln Center, Granny Cart Productions, Smithsonian Mag, and more.
Besides producing stories from China and Hong Kong, Tahiat has also co-ordinated remote productions in Afghanistan, Nepal and the West Bank. She taught documentary storytelling, video production and portfolio development as a digital media fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Tahiat holds an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she received the Justin Israel scholarship and the Bernard Oliver Memorial Award.
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