Ash-har Quraishi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ash-har Quraishi
Occupation	American broadcaster
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1975(1975-01-05)
Age	49
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ash-har Quraishi Biography

Ash-har Quraishi is one of the most popular and richest American broadcaster who was born on January 5, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Ash-har Quraishi (born January 5, 1975) (pron. Usher Ker- AY=Shee) is an American broadcast journalist and reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago. He was previously the chief Midwest correspondent for now-defunct Al Jazeera America at its Chicago Bureau. He has served as CNN’s bureau chief in Islamabad and was listed in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the National Security Agency. He later worked for WTTW-TV in Chicago and for the Chicago News Cooperative. His family roots are in the India.

On July 30, 2013 it was announced Quraishi was hired by the now-defunct Al Jazeera America to serve as its chief correspondent for its Chicago bureau.

On March 16, 2010, Chicago public television station WTTW and the Chicago News Cooperative announced the hiring of Quraishi as a multimedia correspondent and content producer who will alternate working for WTTW and the CNC each week. His duties included reporting for WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program and its website, writing for the Chicago News Cooperative’s pages in The New York Times, writing for the cooperative’s website and helping to train cooperative employees in using video. He left the CNC to become a full-time correspondent for Chicago Tonight in April 2011.

Ash-har Quraishi Net Worth

Ash-har Quraishi is one of the richest American broadcaster from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ash-har Quraishi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Quraishi served as CNN’s Islamabad Bureau Chief covering news from across Pakistan, based there within days of the 9/11 attacks. In 2001 At the age of 26 he was CNN’s youngest International Bureau Chief. While at the network he reported on political and military tensions between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden on the volatile Pakistan/Afghanistan border. He covered the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, providing live reports from the port city of Karachi. He was live from the capital of Islamabad minutes after the bombing of a Protestant church within the diplomatic enclave. Quraishi also covered the 2002 Pakistani elections and was the first western journalist to report the capture of suspected 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Following the capture, Quraishi conducted an exclusive one-on-one interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Quraishi was honored by the South Asian Journalists Association for his coverage of the 2002 parliamentary elections. In 2004 he was named one of the top 50 South Asian Global Achievers in Mass Media by Triangle Media Group.

Quraishi next was Chief Investigative Reporter for CBS affiliate KCTV based in Kansas City. His reports have resulted in changes in police complaint procedures and changes in recruitment policies for the Missouri National Guard. His report on intimidation inside local police stations earned him a 2007 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. His investigations have been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, The Kansas City Press Club, The South Asian Journalists Association and The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 2010, he was awarded two National Headliner Awards for his reporting and was also an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award finalist. He is a four-time Emmy winner and ten-time nominee for feature, specialty and investigative reporting. Since joining KCTV5, he has exposed sexual predators online, weak sentencing for child pornography convicts, serious security vulnerabilities in airport security and the ability of bad physicians to move from state to state, leaving behind serious malpractice histories. Quraishi was investigated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under the Department of Homeland Security for a series of reports exposing vulnerabilities in aviation security. The TSA investigation was later dropped and the series earned Quraishi a 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award. He left KCTV in December 2009.

While covering the Ferguson protests in 2014, Ferguson police department shot rubber bullets and tear gas at an AJAM news crew setting up for a live shot including correspondent Quraishi, causing them to abandon their recording equipment and run to safety. Other incidents including the arrests of two print journalists for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post also occurred during the same time period. All the incidents were considered attacks on press freedom by the local and county police and led to the state police being put in charge as well as comments by President Barack Obama denouncing the actions.

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Ashok Ranked on the list of most popular American broadcaster. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ash-har Quraishi celebrates birthday on January 5 of every year.