Robin Fernandez
Robin Fernandez is a Pakistani Catholic journalist and Foreign Editor for The Express Tribune, a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan.[1]
Education
Before embarking on his career as a journalist he completed a degree from Karachi University.
Career
From 1992 – 1998 he worked as Editor for the Saudi Research and Marketing Group in Saudi Arabia.
Fernandez is also founder of the Karachi-based human rights group Conscience. He is the information secretary for the press watchdog group Journalists for Human Rights and Democracy. In 2005, he was on the editorial staff of Pakistan's premier English-language newspaper Dawn. At the same time he edited the Christian Voice, Karachi, an English-language weekly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Karachi.[2]
Fernandez is held in such high esteem by the Catholic Church that in 2006, just before the Archdiocese of Karachi launched its Urdu weekly Agahi, he was one of the people consulted about the direction the weekly should take.[3]
In 2012 he was one of 22 journalists selected from Pakistan and Afghanistan for a project Afghanistan-Pakistan Journalists Exchange Programme - Understanding the Neighbour. The aim of the project was bring together young journalists from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Each journalist then wrote a report focusing on issues that are of interest to both Pakistan and Afghanistan.[4]
He has also been an assistant editor with the Pakistani daily The News International
In 2016, he is the Foreign Editor and a blogger for The Express Tribune. He is a versatile writer able to cover subjects from religion to politics and history to food. (see articles below)
Award
On January 29, 2002, Fernandez received the Indian Catholic Press Association's Barrett Award for the best SAR News Reporter of the Year 2002.[5]
External links
Express Tribune articles by Robin Fernandez
Express Tribune Blog pieces by Robin Fernandez