ASH-HAR QURAISHI
Ash-har Quraishi is a joint Correspondent for WTTW-Channel 11 and the Chicago News Cooperative. An Emmy Award-winning television journalist, writer and filmmaker, he has more than a decade of local, international and investigative reporting experience.
Prior to his posting in Chicago, Ash-har spent four years as the Chief Investigative Reporter for KCTV, the CBS affiliate in Kansas City and more than six years at CNN. He served as CNN’s Islamabad bureau chief/correspondent, responsible for the network’s coverage of Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks. He reported extensively on events in Pakistan and the region, including the conflict between India and Pakistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He reported live from Karachi on the disappearance of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and was the first television correspondent to report the capture of top Al Qaeda operative and 9/11 architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammad. He also supervised production of the network’s news magazine program “CNN&TIME”.
He has won awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors, The Society of Professional Journalists, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Press Club of Atlantic City and the South Asian Journalists Association. In 2010 Ash-har was awarded two National Headliner Awards and was a a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. Ash-har is a four-time Emmy Award-winner and has received five Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Recent Contributions
by RACHEL CROMIDAS, ANDREW A. NELLES, and ASH-HAR QURAISHI | Apr 18, 2011
Through the viewfinder of a camera, two artists, Adam Novak and Sara Collins, have seen a pair of Chicago police officers moonlight as bagpipe players, a fistfight break out on Milwaukee and Division, and an impromptu block party begin in Englewood when residents dragged a man-size speaker onto the street and started blasting Lee Oskar’s
by ASH-HAR QURAISHI | Jun 24, 2010
When Adolf Jerger was sent to Cook County Jail in February for failing to pay child support, he never imagined his six months behind bars would include growing produce for upscale Chicago restaurants.
by ASH-HAR QURAISHI | May 23, 2010
The Field Museum of Natural History this week will open an exhibit that features a reincarnated Sue — the museum’s iconic Tyrannosaurus rex — as a lifelike animatronic creature that turns its head to track visitors’ movements and lets out a loud roar.
by ASH-HAR QURAISHI | May 7, 2010
Over that past few years, foreclosures have swept over the Chicago region. To stem this rising tide of board-ups, the city and the suburbs both applied for federal funding to rehabilitate foreclosed homes. However, the suburbs were denied foreclosure aid as Chicago got millions. Here we see how the city is turning these federal dollars
by ASH-HAR QURAISHI | Apr 18, 2010
The vice mayor of Chicago has few responsibilities, but a budget exceeding $100,000 a year. The unpaid position was created in 1976 with one purpose: to convene the City Council to elect an interim mayor if the sitting mayor dies or resigns. That happened once, when Harold Washington died in office in 1987, creating chaos
