Sunni Khalid
News EditorSunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism.
He has worked for Time magazine, USA TODAY, The Wilmington News-Journal,The Baltimore Sun, and National Public Radio, where he was a diplomatic correspondent and the Cairo bureau chief.
During his career, Sunni has reported from more than 35 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean on a number of breaking international stories. These include Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, the U.S. military intervention in Haiti, Israel’s Operation Grapes of Wrath in Lebanon and South Africa’s historic, first all-race elections in 1994.
Over the years, Sunni has also been a guest on several television and radio programs, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, ITN, Sky News and the Voice of America. He attended Howard University in Washington D.C. and graduated cum laude, majoring in print journalism. He also studied at the Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C., majoring in African studies and international economics.
More recently, Sunni helped establish the award-winning news department at WYPR-FM in Baltimore, where he served as managing news editor for nine years. Mr. Khalid was born in Detroit and raised in Highland Park, Michigan.
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Agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, reportedly detained more than a dozen people who showed up yesterday to a San Francisco immigration court. -
Sonoma County officials are urging residents to prepare for what could be a high-risk wildfire season. -
About three dozen residents of Oakland’s Wood Street homeless shelter remain at the site, which will be permanently closed by the city at the end of the month. -
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors is holding a special meeting tomorrow afternoon to consider initiating the process to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus from office. -
The iconic Berkeley Flea Market could be closing down after a half-century. -
The founder of a local cryptocurrency company wants to donate nearly nine-and-a-half million do -
The Bay Area is under an air quality advisory through tomorrow. -
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie signed legislation last week that will allow the city to accept private donations to replace fire engines, ambulances and trucks. -
Oakland’s crisis response program is drawing mixed reviews from city officials and some residents. -
Temperatures across the Bay Area are hot and are predicted to get even hotter through the weekend.
