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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Bay FC, the professional women's soccer team, set an attendance record for the National Women's Soccer League on Saturday with a sellout crowd of 40,091 for its 3-2 loss to the Washington Spirit at Oracle Park. -
The partnership between two Silicon Valley transit agencies is souring amid accusations of a lack of communication involving the region's most significant expansion project. -
Officials at the Port of Oakland said today that imports increased by nearly a third in July – ahead of the Trump administration’s tariffs on imported goods that went into effect earlier this month. -
The professional women's soccer team, Bay Football Club, is launching a new, all-girls youth soccer league.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a lawsuit today challenging President Trump's effort to impose immigration enforcement requirements. The administration is withholding more than a billion dollars in grants meant to help victims of crime. -
The City of San Jose has struck a proposed lease agreement with the San Jose Sharks to modernize the city-owned SAP Center and keep the professional hockey team there through the 2050-51 season. -
The name of San Jose activist Cesar Chavez will stay on a U.S. Navy ship, after a local lawmaker pushed the federal government to continue honoring his name and legacy. -
The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District and the union representing more than 1,800 of its employees have reached what the agency calls "a landmark" four-year labor contract. -
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee pushed back against President Trump’s remarks on the city being “very bad” on crime. -
San Francisco’s downtown appears to finally be bouncing back from the COVID shutdown five years that emptied out many offices.
