Neheda Barakat
Neheda Barakat is a veteran news producer for television who presently works as a freelance media specialist for numerous clients, including Global Vision Productions. Ms. Barakat also makes regular contributions to the Australian Financial Review’s Boss magazine. From her earliest days working as a researcher for the Channel Nine in Melbourne, Ms. Neheda Barakat proved a motivated and hard-charging worker with a skill for production. Neheda Barakat brought her skills to the production of Channel Nine’s nightly program, ‘A Current Affair,’ and the morning program the ‘Today’ show. Ms. Barakat’s duties eventually took her to the far corners of the globe, where she covered such wide-ranging topics as the First Gulf War. Later, she moved to Los Angeles, working for Channel Nine Australia as well as TV New Zealand and BBC Radio Scotland, where she produced ongoing coverage of the riots after the Rodney King verdict. She also produced features on gun control and Genome Project, among others. Neheda went on to forge a career as a Senior Producer and acting bureau chief for the Australian Broadcast Corporation, where she produced segments on business and the economy. Eventually, she rose to the position of Executive Producer for ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), where she created and produced the critically successful business program, Inside Business. After leaving ABC, Barakat worked briefly for the TV News and Features Division of the United Nations, where she produced reports on war crimes in the Congo, child miners in Burkina Faso and Tanzania and Iraqi refugees in Syria. Highlights of Barakat’s career include the creation and production a 13-part documentary series on the survival efforts of indigenous tribes in the 21st Century, the production of segments covering the first territorial handover following the signing in Egypt of the revised Wye River implementation accords, and the production of a three hour special for ABC called ‘Women in Sports.’ An avid reader, Ms. Barakat enjoys traveling for both business and pleasure. She currently lives in America.
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