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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About 25,000 registered nurses at University of California medical centers voted to ratify a contract offer with the university’s leadership over the weekend, averting a strike planned for last week. -
A projected increase in tax revenues on AI employees “extraordinary salaries” and soaring stock prices for companies, like Google, Meta and Nvidia, could mean billions more for schools and community colleges. -
An executive order issued by President Trump could leave California with about 60,000 fewer truck drivers. -
California schools raised graduation rates and academic achievement and improved college and career readiness last school year. -
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee named the Oakland Police Department’s second-in-command to serve as the department’s interim chief when Floyd Mitchell steps down next month. -
A San Leandro city councilmember pleaded not guilty yesterday wire fraud and perjury charges stemming from a federal investigation involving an Oakland-based housing developer. -
A program aimed at preventing youths from getting involved in violence and illicit drug activity is coming to San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin. -
More than 280 flights out of SFO have been delayed and more than 50 others cancelled, so far, as the season’s first atmospheric river arrived in the Bay Area. -
Waymo service is expanding to Bay Area freeways and San Jose. -
Neighbors of a San Jose homeless hotel are complaining about a hotel that has housed homeless residents since August.
