Zuha Siddiqui
Education
- M.A. in Journalism & Near Eastern Studies (CGPA 3.90/4.00), New York University, New York, NY (May 2019)
- B.Sc. in Political Science (CGPA 3.25/4.00), Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan (May 2017)
Biography
Zuha Siddiqui has been Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Communication and Design at Habib University since May 2025, teaching three self-designed electives — Journalism and the American Novel, Writing Cities, and Technology, Power, and Resistance — serving on the Capstone Committee for the 2025 and 2026 Capstone Showcases, and helping design the syllabus for Introduction to Storytelling, a mandatory first-year course. She previously taught at Habib as Adjunct Faculty (January 2021–May 2023), teaching New Media and Journalism, Journalism and the American Novel, Writing Cities, and Media and Migration.
She is an award-winning freelance journalist with over six years of experience covering technology, human rights, and climate from Pakistan (2019–present), with bylines in The New Humanitarian, DevEx, Rest of World, VICE, The Juggernaut, Slate, BuzzFeed News, Foreign Policy, Scroll.in, and The Third Pole, among others. From May 2023 to May 2024, she was a Labor x Tech Reporting Fellow with Rest of World’s South Asia bureau, covering the intersection of labor and technology across the region — including content-moderation labor conditions, Pakistan’s EV transition, Sri Lankan tech workers’ demands, and gig-worker safety practices. She has also worked as a News Producer at NPR’s Islamabad Bureau (December 2020), Assistant Editor at Soch Videos and Soch Writing (August 2019–March 2020), and Researcher on a ProPublica collaborative with New York University (January–May 2019), where she led a team of six student researchers filing over 50 Freedom of Information requests across 34 US public universities.
Siddiqui is a South Asia Speaks Nonfiction Fellow (2025–2026), working on a proposal for a cultural history of the Pakistani internet, and has held reporting fellowships with Rest of World’s Labor x Tech Fellowship (2023–2024), the Sinking Cities Project (2022), ICFJ’s Stemming the Tide of Intolerance program (2021), One World Media (2020–2021), the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (2020–2021), the South Asian Journalism Association (2019–2020), and the Falak Sufi Fellowship at NYU (2017–2019).
Honors & Awards
- Winner, Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, for “Riders in the Smog,” 2025
- Winner, South Asian Journalists Association Outstanding International Reporting Award, for “Riders in the Smog,” 2025
- Finalist, Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award, 2023
- Winner, European Journalism Centre’s Climate Journalism Award (Emerging Talent), for The Sinking Cities Project, 2023
- Winner, Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award for Excellence in Technology Reporting, for Rest of World’s Global Gig Workers project, 2022
- Shortlist, Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award, 2021
Skills
- Data Analysis & Research: Microsoft Excel, Tableau Public, ArcGIS, Python 3, archival research using municipal databases
- Multimedia: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom)
- Languages: Native Urdu, Hindi
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