WASIM AHMAD

Multimedia Editor

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Wasim "Wesley" Ahmad graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y., in 2004. After a year working as a copy editor and columnist in St. Cloud, Minn., he returned to Binghamton, where he was later promoted to the newsroom’s first Online Content Producer.

Wasim was an integral part of the Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin team that won the "Best of Gannett" award for breaking news coverage of major flooding in central New York in 2006. During the flood, more than 3 million hits were registered on the site, and Wasim helped coordinate all newsroom coverage online. It was a week of very little sleep. While initially during his high school and college journalism days he wanted to be a writer, it was the flood and its aftermath that propelled him into online journalism.

Wasim has spent his time since honing his online skills and training other journalists in online journalism and video.

He has been in Naples since February 2007 as a multimedia editor for the Daily News, where he has shot video and posted content for the newspaper’s Web site and Studio 55 operations. You also may have heard him in some of the Daily News podcasts.

In addition to journalism, Wasim’s other passion is photography. He’s a member of photo clubs in Naples and Miami, and also co-organizes the Southwest Florida Photography Meetup, a Fort Myers-based photography group. If you see him and a large group of people with big cameras around town, feel free to join in the fun.

Recent stories:

• Outdoor patio ceiling collapses in downtown Naples; no one injured
  December 30, 2007
• Man protests handling of religion in schools outside Naples Daily News
  November 29, 2007
• VIDEO: Protesters tout 'naked truth' campaign against KFC on Marco
  October 30, 2007
• Pro-Life demonstrators line streets for Life Chain event
  October 7, 2007
• Family, friends set up makeshift memorial for I-75 crash victims
  September 23, 2007
• Rockford, Ill. columnist blasts Collier Schools superintendent
  September 18, 2007
• Brush fires threaten Golden Gate homes and church
  April 22, 2007
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Recent videos by WASIM AHMAD:

• Ben Stone, Irish dancer
  WASIM AHMAD as Producer | May 10, 2008
• Fire on 28th Ave. N.
  WASIM AHMAD as Producer | April 25, 2008
• An interview with Cynthia Mitchell
  WASIM AHMAD as Producer | March 29, 2008
• Bonita Mayoral Debate Intro
  WASIM AHMAD as Videographer | March 21, 2008
• BCHS Pep rally for champions
  WASIM AHMAD as Videographer | February 28, 2008
• Single gender classroom
  WASIM AHMAD as Producer | February 27, 2008
• Block scheduling fracas at meeting
  WASIM AHMAD as Videographer | February 22, 2008
• Studio 55: Inside the story
  WASIM AHMAD as Videographer | January 30, 2008
• Giuliani visits Naples
  WASIM AHMAD as Videographer | January 14, 2008
• Studio 55: Is your grouper real?
  WASIM AHMAD as Videographer | January 11, 2008
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