Ash-har Quraishi

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Ash-har Quraishi
Born (1975-01-05) January 5, 1975 (age 49)
E.W. Scripps Co.
TitleCorrespondent CBS News

Ash-har Quraishi (born January 5, 1975) (pron. Usher Ker-AY=Shee) is an American

broadcast journalist and national consumer correspondent for CBS News. He is a former reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago. He was previously the chief Midwest correspondent for now-defunct Al Jazeera America at its Chicago Bureau. He has served as CNN's bureau chief in Islamabad. He later worked for WTTW-TV in Chicago and for the Chicago News Cooperative. He was born in Chicago
.

Early life and education

A Chicago native of Indian descent, Quraishi graduated from Von Steuben High School in Chicago and from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1]

Career

CNN

Quraishi served as

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Following the capture, Quraishi conducted an exclusive one-on-one interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
. Quraishi was honored by the South Asian Journalists Association for his coverage of the 2002 parliamentary elections. In 2004 he was named one of the top 50 South Asian Global Achievers in Mass Media by Triangle Media Group.

NSA wiretapping

Quraishi was one of several journalists whose names were listed in a lawsuit filed by the

NSA, of illegally wiretapping
conversations and monitoring e-mails between members of its organization and members of the media, including Quraishi. At the time Quraishi was reporting on a story about "special interest" detainees who had been detained and deported even though they had not been charged with any terrorist related activities.

KCTV

Quraishi next was Chief Investigative Reporter for

Department of Homeland Security for a series of reports exposing vulnerabilities in aviation security. The TSA investigation was later dropped and the series earned Quraishi a 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award. He left KCTV in December 2009.[5]

WTTW and the Chicago News Cooperative

On March 16, 2010, Chicago public television station WTTW and the Chicago News Cooperative announced the hiring of Quraishi as a multimedia correspondent and content producer who will alternate working for WTTW and the CNC each week. His duties included reporting for WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" program and its website, writing for the Chicago News Cooperative's pages in The New York Times, writing for the cooperative's website and helping to train cooperative employees in using video. He left the CNC to become a full-time correspondent for Chicago Tonight in April 2011.[6]

Al Jazeera America

On July 30, 2013 it was announced Quraishi was hired by the now-defunct Al Jazeera America to serve as its chief correspondent for its Chicago bureau.[7]

While covering the

The Huffington Post also occurred during the same time period. All the incidents were considered attacks on press freedom by the local and county police and led to the state police being put in charge as well as comments by President Barack Obama
denouncing the actions.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Will half a reporter make 'Chicago Tonight' whole? | Feder | blogs.vocalo.org". Archived from the original on 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". www.nationalheadlinerawards.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "IRE Contest". Archived from the original on 2010-10-30. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
  4. ^ "Bottom Line Communications™". Archived from the original on 2010-10-14. Retrieved 2010-10-11.
  5. ^ "Bottom Line Communications". Archived from the original on 2009-12-13. Retrieved 2009-12-27. KCTV5 Drops Top Investigative Reporter
  6. ^ "Will half a reporter make 'Chicago Tonight' whole? | Feder | blogs.vocalo.org". Archived from the original on 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  7. ^ "Home".
  8. Huffington Post
    . Retrieved 16 Aug 2014.
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