Experienced journalist and media/communication strategist Mr Hausen has worked in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Britain...

Experienced journalist and media/communication strategist Mr Hausen has worked in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Britain and Australia and has worked in all aspects of the media. He is widely-published internationally as well as in the Pakistani media. He began his career 20 years ago working for a popular English language daily The Muslim in Islamabad and then moved on to radio and now television. Before Samaa TV he worked as correspondent/researcher with Geo English where he also received one-month training in TV broadcasting. For the last five years he is associated with a New York-based radio network and runs a live current affairs show Radio Pakistan's World Service called English Hour. He is one of the pioneers who started FM radio in Pakistan launching Mast FM103 which is aired in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan. Mr Hausen has worked for the BBC, ABC (Australia), SBS (Australia) and World Vision radio in addition to participating in India's ZeeTV. Masror Hausen has experience in PR and media marketing.
As media and communication consultant he has worked extensively for various UN agencies as well as for leading NGOs like Sungi Development Foundation, Network for Consumer Protection and ActionAid Pakistan where he devised effective Communication Strategies. In addition he has trained a large number of social activists in Pakistan on media strategizing. He also trained 60 Afghan journalists in Peace Journalism during a five-days workshop in Peshawar. The training workshop was funded by ActionAid Pakistan. Mr Hausen has represented Pakistan at a WHO conference in Cairo and the UN-sponsored 1998 Oslo Conference on Freedom of Belief and Religion.
He studied Politics from Cardiff University and then International Relations from the Australian National University on Australian government scholarship. He has an unconditional admission offer from Cardiff University to undertake a PhD course in Political Communication focussing on the US Media Strategy and Iraq war. He has authored two books, thousands of reports, dozens of articles and some poems!