Fellows & Editors
Sunni Khalid
- Trip:
- Liberia 2010
- Affiliation:
- WYPR
- Country:
- Liberia
- Year:
- 2010
Sunni Khalid is the senior reporter with WYPR's News Department. A veteran journalist and former foreign correspondent, Khalid was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and graduated cum laude, majoring in print journalism. He also attended the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., majoring in African studies and international economics. During his career, Khalid has worked as a journalist with Time magazine, the Washington Times, USA TODAY, the Wilmington News-Journal, The Baltimore Sun, the Voice of America, and National Public Radio. At NPR, Khalid was a diplomatic correspondent and the Cairo bureau chief. Mr. Khalid has reported throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean on a number of breaking international stories, including Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, the U.S. military intervention in Haiti, and South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994. He is a past recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Ben Grauer Award, and the Columbia University School of Journalism's Silver Baton Award for his coverage of Haiti and South Africa, respectively. Khalid has worked in print, radio, television and internet journalism and helped create WYPR's news department.
Stories
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How Do People in Post-Conflict Societies Survive?
Sunni Khalid reports on his recent Gatekeeper Editors' trip to Liberia with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Sunni, a senior news editor with Baltimore-area WYPR, was impressed by the optimism and resilience...
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Moonshine in Liberia
Sunni Khalid brings us a radio postcard from his recent travels in Liberia, where he met the female chief of a remote town, hiked through a sugarcane field and happened upon a...
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Land Disputes a Festering Problem in Post-War Liberia
Listen Now. Walking along a footpath near the village of Lukapa, a short walk away from the border with Guinea, is like walking through the Garden of Eden. Exotic birds chirp from...
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Fear of a Return to Civil War Fades in Liberia
Listen Now. In Gbarnga--Charles Taylor's hometown and a sister city of Baltimore--33-year-old Mark Dowee recalls living on his family's farm in 1997, when rebels, based in neighboring Guinea, swept into town. They...
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Kick-Starting Economy Biggest Challenge Facing Post-War Liberia
Listen Now. Firestone Liberia, the world's largest rubber plantation at Harbel, sprawled out on a 100-thousand square acres about 30 miles east of Liberia's capital, Monrovia. A Firestone manager explains the science of...
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President Johnson Sirleaf Stresses Continuity for Post-War Liberia
Listen Now. The mid-day traffic moves in frenetic waves, up and down Broad Street, the main avenue in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. Fleets of motorcycles compete with the latest S-U-Vs and sedans. Long...
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Sexual Abuse Part of Liberia’s Post-War Reality
Sunni Khalid, IRP/WYPR A group of young mothers at THINK, Inc, safe house in Paynesville, Liberia. Listen Now. In the concrete courtyard of a compound in Paynesville, on a muddy road...
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Starting From Less Than Zero: Liberia Rebuilds
Sunni Khalid produced a week-long series of radio pieces that aired on WYPR, an NPR affiliate. In each segment, he discussed his experiences as an IRP Gatekeeper Editor to Liberia. Khalid began...
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Liberia’s President Optimistic About Her Nation’s Future
Listen now. She's known as the "Iron Lady." And with her direct gaze and no-nonsense demeanor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has commanded respect from both friend and foe over the years, long before...
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