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Said Sulaiman ASHNA

Lorton

Summary

Dynamic media professional with extensive experience at Pashto-Dari Ashna TV-Radio, Voice of America. Proven expertise in content management and live broadcasting, leading teams to produce compelling stories. Adept at fostering collaboration and driving innovative solutions, ensuring timely news delivery and audience engagement. Committed to excellence in digital content creation and team development.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Team leader – Editor - Anchor

Pashto-Dari Ashna TV-Radio, Voice of America
- Current
  • This multi-skilled job includes assign tasks, selections, producing original stories, multilanguage translations, hosting live shows, field coverage and hosting –coordinating a brand-new TV show with affiliation.

Team Leader, Copy Editor (On & Off)

Ashna TV, VOA
01.2007 - 01.2015
  • Create an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort.
  • Provide the team with a vision of the project objectives.
  • Motivate and inspire team members.
  • Coach and help develop team members; help resolve dysfunctional behavior.
  • Facilitate problem solving and collaboration.
  • Strive for team consensus and win-win agreements.
  • Maintain healthy group dynamics.
  • Intervene when necessary, to aid the group in resolving issues.
  • Encourage creativity, risk-taking, and constant improvement.
  • Coordinate with internal and external customers as necessary
  • Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques, and tools to support task performance.
  • Assure that the team addresses all relevant issues within the specifications and various standards.
  • Provide necessary business information.
  • Serve as meeting manager or chairman.
  • Help keep the team focused and on track.
  • Work with functional managers and the team sponsor to obtain necessary resources to support the team's requirements.
  • Obtain and coordinate space, furniture, equipment, and communication lines for team members.
  • Establish meeting times, places, and agendas.
  • Provide status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule.
  • Keep the project manager and product committee informed of task accomplishment, issues, and status.
  • Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve interface and integration issues with other teams.
  • Provide guidance to the team based on management direction.

Director/News Manager

Shamshad TV
01.2005 - 01.2006
  • Direct and launch Shamshad TV [18] Hours programs. Managing Director to delegate office duties. Create schedules for different shifts. Closely work with the staff to sustain and grow programs and service. Manage and coordinating administrative functions to ensure efficient operations of the organization. Provide guidance and training to the newly hired staff. Hire-terminate staff.

Co-Founder, Director

LEMAR TV - Kabul
Kabul
04.2003 - 12.2005
  • Gather news of national and international events.
  • Ability in choosing broadcast stories appropriate to the target and audience.
  • A 40 to 60-hour work weekly. Hosting live shows on current affairs and news bulletins.
  • Monitoring breaking news, national and international press conferences to ensure proper live coverage, and original stories.
  • Cultivate and developing news sources consistently.
  • Recruit hire, train and coordinate full-part time intern news reporting staff.
  • Archiving records of news and public affairs efforts at TOLO-TV newsroom archive.
  • Other immediate duties that were assigned by the general director.
  • Leading and directing 11 times news short bulletins. Making ensure that assessment processes are applied correctly and respond to issues as they arise. To ensure that news is written in real time and broadcast on time.

Education

MPA – Master of Public Administration -

Strayer University
Virginia, USA
10.2022

BBA, Bachelor of Business Administration -

Strayer University
Virginia, USA
08.2015

Associate of Arts and Information -

Strayer University
Virginia, USA
06.2013

Skills

  • Content management for media
  • Social media administration
  • Digital content creation
  • Team supervision and budgeting
  • Live broadcasting skills
  • Story production and editing
  • News selection expertise

Certification

  • Certificate of Standard Journalism - Annually
  • Certificate of Workplace Safety - Annually
  • Certificate of Security Awareness - Annually
  • Certificate of Unbiased Reporting - Annually
  • Certificate of Modern journalism (include News and Report Writing, Producing, and Broadcasting) Radio free Europe/Radio liberty, Boston, USA March-2004
  • Certificate of News Bulletin Writing Radio free Europe/Radio liberty, Kabul, Afghanistan June-2003

Languages

Clear oral and written communication skills in English, and strong oral and written communications in Pashto, Dari, English, Urdu and Pashayee., In depth knowledge of political, socio cultural, and economic landscape of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the South-Central Asia region and its global impacts., Familiar and experienced Pashto – Dari/Farsi literatures, contemporary issues, and work in Afghan multiethnic society., Research special projects, design project, management, implementations, observing and monitoring skills., Fully able to work as part a team as well as independent.

Available on:

  • 1-703 6152365
  • Https://www.facebook.com/said.ashna
  • Said Sulaiman Ashna (@sashna111) | Twitter
  • Http://www.whopopular.com/Said-Sulaiman-Ashna
  • Http://www.insidevoa.com/content/voa-afghan-tv-program-links-kabul-and-washington-studios/1799063.html

Affiliations

  • Reading, Biking, GYM, Swim, Music lover, travel enthusiast. Civil Society member.

Accomplishments

  • Outstanding Award -March 2023 VOA-USAGM
  • Exceeds Full Successful Award - 2022
  • Superior Accomplishment Awards - 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013
  • Civil Service Award - 2016

Languages

English
Full Professional
Farsi
Native/ Bilingual
Pashto
Native/ Bilingual
Pashayee
Full Professional

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Team Leader, Copy Editor (On & Off)

Ashna TV, VOA
01.2007 - 01.2015

Director/News Manager

Shamshad TV
01.2005 - 01.2006

Co-Founder, Director

LEMAR TV - Kabul
04.2003 - 12.2005

Team leader – Editor - Anchor

Pashto-Dari Ashna TV-Radio, Voice of America
- Current

MPA – Master of Public Administration -

Strayer University

BBA, Bachelor of Business Administration -

Strayer University

Associate of Arts and Information -

Strayer University

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