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Poh Si Teng is a freelance print, video journalist and multimedia producer based in New Delhi.

She has written for the Wall Street Journal and shot, produced news and feature videos for WSJ, Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost. She’s covered Muslim girls boxing their way out of poverty, what it means to be Indian post-Mumbai attacks, India’s looming water crisis and the 2008 national elections.

She was recently awarded a fellowship by the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA).

Before settling in New Delhi, Poh Si was a staff reporter for the Associated Press in Miami. And prior to that, she interned as a multimedia producer for The Miami Herald, where she was awarded the McClatchy President’s Award for a multimedia storytelling project called “60 Seconds.”

In 2008, she received a grant from KOMAS (Malaysia) to shoot a documentary about Muslim transsexual sex workers in Malaysia. It has screened at various festivals such as the San Francisco Frameline, Vienna’s This Human World, New Delhi’s Nigah Film Festival and the Freedom Film Fest in Malaysia, where Poh Si received the Justin Louis Award.

In addition to the publications above, Poh Si has also written for The Columbus Dispatch, the Oakland Tribune, the Vallejo Times-Herald, the Duluth News Tribune, The Star (Malaysia) and The New Straits Times (Malaysia). And she has worked on several multimedia, radio and citizen journalism projects in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She was also the director and co-founder of theCICAK, a Malaysian political, pop culture magazine and social networking site. Last year, she was nominated by the Asian Youth Ambassadors (AYA) for the Most Outstanding Malaysian Youth Award.

See her portfolio. Contact her at pohsiteng@gmail.com.

Poh Si Teng adalah seorang wartawan bebas.

Dia pernah menetap di Amerika Syarikat untuk mencari kebebasan setelah dibesarkan di Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.

Semasa di Florida, Amerika Syarikat, dia pernah bekerja untuk Associated Press sebagai seorang wartawan video staf dan penerbit multimedia. Dia juga telah penerbitkan bahan multimedia untuk The Miami Herald dan The Virginian-Pilot.

Program “60 Seconds” yang dihasilkannya untuk The Miami Herald telah memenangi McClatchy President’s Award baru-baru ini.

Antara akhbar-akhbar lain yang pernah menerbitkan laporan Poh Si adalah The Columbus Dispatch, Oakland Tribune, Vallejo Times-Herald, Duluth News Tribune, The Star dan The New Straits Times.

Selain itu, dia telah terlibat di dalam projek kewartawanan masyarakat di sekitar Bay Area di San Francisco.

Dia juga telah menubuhkan satu majalah berbentuk elektronik yang menyentuh tentang politik dan cara hidup semasa bernama theCICAK. Sebagai pengarah projek tersebut, theCICAK telah berkembang dengan pesatnya. Pada Mei 2007, theCICAK telah disorotkan oleh KQED Radio, satu ahli National Public Radio.

Pada tahun lepas, dia telah dicalonkan sebagai Remaja Malaysia Paling Cemerlang oleh Asian Youth Ambassadors (AYA).

Pusat Komas telah membiayai Poh Si untuk menghasilkan dokumentari “Pecah Lobang” yang akan ditayangkan di Malaysian Freedom Film Fest pada 6 September 2008.

Setelah lima tahun di perantauan, dia kini berpusat di New Delhi, India dan bergiat aktif secara bebas di seluruh Asia Selatan.

Kunjungi portfolio Poh Si. E-mail pohsiteng@gmail.com.