SAEDNEWS: Yara Jamal is a web writer and production assistant at CTV Atlantic in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. She is originally from Palestine. Jamal has turned her passion for storytelling into a career. She interned for the SaltWire Network as a video-journalist and multimedia editor.
Jamal was part of the “Reporting in Mi’kma’ki” class at the University of King’s College, where she reported on the Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission in Unama'ki/Cape Breton.
Her story won gold for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards in the Multicultural category.
Yara speaks Arabic and English