Sadiq Usman

Award-winning journalist with two decades of audio, television and digital experience in live reporting, breaking news, investigative journalism, global diplomacy coverage and documentaries.

Currently based in Berlin, Germany. Available for TV and radio live hits as well as packaged audio reports for news and current affairs programs/podcasts. In-person tape-syncs and double-enders are also possible barring COVID-19 restrictions. Experienced field producer/ fixer with a comprehensive list of freelance camera contacts in New York City (where I was based before moving to Germany).

Background:
For the past nine years, I have been the United Nations correspondent for CBC Radio Canada reporting in English and French on local and international stories for radio, television and the web.

During that time I covered wide-ranging topics of international interest from the UN and greater New York area, such as the discord in the Security Council over the wars in Syria and Yemen, the accusations of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, Whitney Houston’s funeral, the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., and attempts by local and federal officials to manage the COVID-19 outbreak.

I began my career as a journalist in the CBC Montreal newsroom in 1998. Since then, I have held a number of positions with Canada’s public broadcaster including investigative reporter, assignment editor and current affairs radio show producer. 

I was also a volunteer media instructor in Rwanda (2007) and Ghana (2013).