Yalda Hakim Biography

As the host of Impact, the main program of BBC World News, Yalda Hakim is well-known. Since 2012, she has worked for the BBC, offering incisive journalism on several global subjects. Yalda and her crew were honored with a United Nations Association of Australia Media Award in the Best Television Documentary category in October 2013 for two investigations they conducted in Yemen. Yalda formerly worked as the Australian presenter of SBS Dateline before joining BBC World News. Yalda has accumulated a wealth of journalism experience from a newsworthy investigation in Afghanistan's Kandahar province to her reporting from Libya during the Arab Spring. After Yalda's father left Kabul with his family when the Soviet Union invaded in the late 1980s, she migrated to Australia. Yalda was born in Afghanistan. She started working as a journalist as a cadet at SBS's World News Australia. She became a nominee for the Australian Young Journalist of the Year Award early on, and in 2009, she received the United Nations Media Peace Prize for the best coverage of Australian television news.

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