Shelina Begum

Shelina Begum (; born 27 December 1979) is an English journalist, former editor of Asian News and former business editor at the Manchester Evening News.

Early life Begum was born in Wardleworth, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England and attended Falinge Park High School where she obtained nine GCSEs and went on to get A-levels in English, Sociology and Religious Studies at Hopwood Hall College.

Begum completed the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) qualification at City of Liverpool College on a one-day-a-week training course whilst working as a junior reporter Begum has supplied the paper with front-page exclusives, and taken responsibility for the Asian News website, which won the Guardian Media Group's best website for 2004. In October 2005, she was sent on an eight-day assignment to cover the Kashmir earthquake. She wrote a report for the Manchester Evening News and two supplements for Asian News. Her raw video footage and interviews were edited into a half-hour special on Channel M.

Begum also featured in the Northern Powerhouse Women power list 50 in 2020.

Awards In 2006, Begum was named North West Journalist of the Year at the British Nuclear Fuels-sponsored press wards. She won the award for coverage of the Kashmir earthquake and other exclusives. She was the first Asian female journalist to be awarded an honour in the award 's 15-year-history. In 2011, she was a finalist at the O2 Media Awards for Business Journalist of the Year. she speaks fluent Bengali and can understand Urdu and Hindi.