SUNNI M. KHALID Contact:

ac1yg0@r.postjobfree.com

Cell 510-***-****

Address:

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Alameda, CA 94501

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Languages:

English, French, Arabic

Web:

ac1yg0@r.postjobfree.com

Birth:

Detroit, Michigan

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WORK EXPERIENCE

11/2014 – Present

KGO 810 AM

General Assignment Reporter, Producer

On-air reporter, reporting on breaking news in the San Francisco Bay Area. On-scene reporting, live on-air updates and in-studio recorded pieces, covering politics, neighborhoods, various government hearings, public rallies, education, police and sporting events.

1/2003 – 3/2012

WYPR-FM

Managing News Editor

Assigned, edited, mixed and produced daily reports for radio station new news department. Organized staff, selected equipment and lent editorial vision, as well as performed daily reporting. Won awards from the state chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Public Radio News Directors, Inc.

9/2002 – 1/2003

Voice of America

Producer, News File

Selected and helped mix videotape, wrote and voiced scripts for two-minute television news packages, which were translated into more than 20 languages and

broadcast throughout the world.

1/2001 – 1/2003

Africa Journal Voice of America

Assistant Producer, Director

Selected show topics, booked guests, operated

teleprompters, wrote scripts for segments, researched, selected and mixed tape for video segments, prepared questions and packages and guest hosted on this

award-winning, weekly public affairs television show. Named show director in September 2002.

9/2000 – 12/2000

Voice of America

News Staff Writer

Re-wrote wire copy, researched stories and prepared scripts for broadcast by various VOA language services. 11/1997 – 10/2000

The National Summit on Africa

Director of Communications

Selected show topics, booked guests, operated

teleprompters, wrote scripts for segments, researched, selected and mixed tape for video segments, prepared questions and packages and guest hosted on this

award-winning, weekly public affairs television show. Named show director in September 2002.

2/1997 – 11/1997

National Public Radio

Managing News Editor

Inaugurated the race relations beat on the Cultural desk for the National desk. Reported on the racial classification process for the 2000 Census; covered on the annual NAACP convention in Pittsburgh and also reported on alleged racial profiling by police. 1/1995 – 1/1997

National Public Radio

Producer, News File

Established NPR’s first bureau in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Traveled extensively on assignment, including Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, the West Band and the Gaza Strip. Reported on the Hamas/Jihad suicide bombings in Jerusalem in March 1996. Other assignments included reporting on

“Operation Crapes of Wrath” in southern Lebanon in April 1996, as well as the Israeli elections in May 1996.

11/1991 – 1/1997

National Public Radio

Assistant Producer, Director

Responsible for reporting on U.S. foreign policy towards Africa, Latin American and the Caribbean, as well as various other issues, including human rights, arms control, and international drug trafficking. Traveled extensively, including assignment to Angola, Mozambique and Somalia. Reported from KwaZulu- Natal during the 1994 South African elections, as well as the humanitarian interventions in Somalia and Haiti. Also reported on the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

7/1987 – 10/1991

Baltimore Sun

News Staff Writer

Harford County bureau chief. Reported on county government and politics, as well as courts and education, also did reporting on drug trafficking in East Baltimore. Contributed op-ed pieces on foreign policy and drugs to Perspective section. Reported on elections in Kenya and Namibia.

EDUCATION

1/1981 – 1/1982

Johns Hopkins University

(School for Advanced International Studies – SAIS) Washington, D. C.

Studied in Masters Program, concentration on Africa and International Economics

9/1976 – 12/1976

8/1978 – 5/1980

Howard University

Washington, D. C.

Major: Print Journalism. Minor: Political Science. Received B.A. Graduated Cum Laude.

1/1977 – 12/1977

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI

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