Casablanca – As Morocco celebrates women’s accomplishments this week, Morocco World News is highlighting Hanane Hachimi as one of the country’s influential female journalists.
Born in Rhamna, a province in the Moroccan region of Marrakesh-Safi, Hachimi studied journalism at Rabat’s Higher Institute of Information and Communication.
Aiming to strengthen her training, she studied production at France’s Higher Institute of Image Professions, focusing on audiovisual, cinema, directing, and documentary production.
Hachimi began her career in the press in 2001 with the Nissae Mina Al Maghrib magazine, then spent some time in the Gazette du Maroc, followed by Al Hadath magazine, before joining the daily newspaper Maroc Ouest.
She is notably known for her work as an investigative journalist and reporter.
She began working as a television reporter on shows such as “Ousar wa Houloul” (Families and Solutions), a program dealing with Moroccan family issues, and “Aji Tchouf,” a travel show which told the stories of Moroccan craftsmen.
“There are very striking images in life and you can’t really illustrate them as they are through an article, that’s why I decided to go into this field,” Hachimi said once in a statement to Le Soir Echoes.
Throughout her journalistic career of more than 20 years, the Moroccan journalist worked for renowned media outlets such as 2M, Medi1TV, Al Aoula, and TelQuel.
Hachimi worked as a radio journalist on MFM Radio in 2016, hosting the show “Kayhamna Jemii” (It Concerns Us All), which focused on equality and the fight against discrimination.
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Currently, she works as a journalist reporter at Gaia Production, a company specializing in audiovisual production for cinema and television.
Her passion for investigative reporting earned Hachimi a reputation as a risk and adventure lover, with some of her work having a tremendous social impact.
She grabbed attention in an investigation broadcast on the “45 Minutes” program, a household name of investigative reporting in Morocco.
In the report entitled “The Angels Are Not for Sale,” Hachimi helped dismantle a large network specialized in newborn trafficking. She assumed the role of a barren mother who wanted to have a child and was able to reach the gang members and facilitate their arrest.
In addition to the compliments of her colleagues in the press, Hachimi’s report earned recognition from the Noujoum Bladi Competition, where it was crowned the best documentary of 2010. It was also nominated for the “Prix de Marseille” from the French National Center for Cinema (CNC).
In 2013, Sayidaty magazine chose the Moroccan reporter as one of 20 Arab women who “love danger.” The survey included a selection of Arab women who practice specialized professions that are fraught with difficulties, risks, and challenges.
In her last investigation on the “45 Minutes” TV program, Hanane Hachimi posed as a woman with cancer to reveal the spread of charlatanism and unofficial medical practices in Morocco.
In addition to her many successful investigations, the journalist was the first to initiate the production of a report on Rhamna, which lacks media representation.
