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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The Oakland A’s announced that they will move to a minor league ballpark in Sacramento next season, ending more than a half-century of major league baseball in the East Bay. -
CrosscurrentsWelcome to "Foul Ball," a season-long series, looking at what could be the A's final season in Oakland, which may mark the end of major league team sports in a city that boasted all four a half-century ago. So, sit back, relax, and listen to a dirge of what is and what once was. -
CrosscurrentsOakland's Mayor Sheng Thao recently announced Floyd Mitchell as the new chief of the Oakland Police Department. To find out more about him and the challenges he’s inheriting at the OPD, KALW News Editor Sunni Khalid spoke with Ali Winston, a criminal justice reporter. -
The Port of Oakland will consider changing the name of the city's airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport from the current official title of Metropolitan Oakland International Airport. -
Newsom said the CHP is contracting with a private security company, Flock Safety, to place 290 cameras on Oakland streets and 190 on some unspecified East Bay freeways. -
The City of Oakland will meet with the ownership of the Oakland A’s tomorrow about a new lease deal that would keep the team at the Coliseum for at least the next three seasons – before the ballclub’s planned move to Las Vegas. -
CrosscurrentsLast year, 811 San Francisco residents died from accidental overdoses. More than half of those deaths were linked to fentanyl, a potent, synthetic opiod normally prescribed as a painkiller. Today, we look behind the numbers with Sylvie Sturm, the reporter at the San Francisco Public Press, who recently wrote a series on the city's fight against fentanyl. -
State lawmakers Wednesday demanded that the University of California system make more space for California residents -- particularly at its most competitive campuses -- even if it means charging higher tuition to those who come from out of state. -
A proposed cultural center aiming to honor the history of Silicon Valley's African American residents and provide expansive support services just received millions to help build on its future. -
Police in Oakland are warning residents about a rise in smash-and-grab robberies, the department said Wednesday.
