Sazzad Hossain
Drop-in Hours
Spring 2025: Mondays 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm & Wednesday 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
What is Sazzad's Story?
Md Sazzad Hossain has M.A. degrees in journalism from the University of Mississippi and entrepreneurship economics from the University of Dhaka. He has a B.S.S. and M.S.S. in government and politics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.
He worked as a journalist in television and newspapers for 11 years. His last newsroom position was Senior Broadcast Journalist at Independent Television, Bangladesh's leading private 24/7 news channel, from July 2018 until joining the University of Mississippi in 2021. During his career, he was a business news bulletin presenter on SA.TV. He got a Broadcasting Award (2022) for a television feature story, ""Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Fight to Survive Diabetes and COVID-19,"" awarded by the Mississippi Association of Broadcasters.