Zuhura Selemani Khateeb is an experienced professional with broadcasting, research, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities. She has been in the public services for 15 years at the University of Dar es Salaam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, as an assistant lecturer, where she engages in research and trains university students and professional journalists in journalism. Zuhura was one of the research assistants for the University of Dar es Salaam Tracer Study, and later, as part of a team, she co- wrote a report and reviewed the journalism curriculum for the school. Her recent research engagement as a research assistant includes TBC Audience Research and the Yearbook on Media Quality in Tanzania on Local Government Election. She was also the country researcher on the study titled "Navigating Hazards: Newsroom Safety in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Zuhura possesses a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and a master's in media, peace, and conflict studies from the United Nations Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. She also has experience in intercultural competence and communication acquired from Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, Netherlands, during the summer school. Zuhura is a trained curriculum developer from UPEACE in the areas of media, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and management, where she developed a college teaching curriculum titled ‘Media Role in Peace and Conflict’ (unpublished) when acquiring her master's programme.

She has acquired knowledge and practical skills in journalism through different professional workshops and trainings offered by the BBC, VOA and DW Akademie. When she was in secondary school, Zuhura was trained by Radio Five Arusha on news writing, programme production and Broadcasting. She has been a trainer and consultant for institutions such as HakiElimu, EWURA, Media Council of Tanzania, Tanzania Media Women Association, Gender Links South Africa, UN Women, Women Association for Christian Communication, International IDEA, SOS Village Tanzania, Internews, TRA, and Zanzibar House of Representatives.

Zuhura has attended and presented at different international conferences. She was the presenter during an international conference on E-Learning Africa 2025 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with a colleague from the Erich-Brost Institute for International Journalism, Dortmund University, on issues of media reporting of migration. She also presented at another International Conference on Communicating Migration and Mobility; E-Learning Programs and Newsroom Applications for Sub-Saharan Africa (CoMMPASS) in Blantyre-Malawi where she presented on e-learning and blended mode curriculum. Also, she presented at the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) Annual Broadcasting Conference in Dodoma on the topic ‘Strategies for Preparing Quality Local Content in the Digital Economy.’ Zuhura has attended the CODESRIA Conference on Academic Freedom in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; the East Africa Communication Association (EACA) conference hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; and the Institutionalisation of Child Rights in the Digital Future held in Istanbul, Turkey.

On different occasions, she co-developed the Zanzibar House of Representatives strategic plan and the TAMWA training curriculum on media and GBV, and she peer-reviewed the MCT training manual on gender and the media. She was the country researcher on the Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS) led by Gender Links South Africa and the Global Media Monitoring Programme (GMMP) led by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) Canada.

She coordinated SJMC programmes including the UNICEF Child Rights Programme, UNESCO support for the online Diploma Programme for Community Media Journalists, and a student and teacher exchange programme between the Hamburg University of Applied Science, Institute of Media Centre (IMC), and the University of Dar es Salaam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where students produced audiobooks and video documentaries. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Camera for Girls project, the Diploma in Journalism programme, the CoMMPASS Kiswahili MOOC group, and the Gender Focal Point of the school.

In addition, Zuhura is a leader who was nurtured by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the Centre for Creative Leadership in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She has good communication, facilitation, presentation, and problem-solving skills with the right attitude, is hardworking, multi-tasking, professional, and ambitious towards a media and journalism career.