Dina Temple-Raston
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Dina Temple-Raston is a Belgian-born American journalist and award-winning author. She may be best known for her 2001 book, A Death in Texas, and for her work as a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News during Bill Clinton's two terms. She is now a correspondent at National Public Radio.
Temple-Raston was born in Brussels, Belgium on 25th August 1965. She received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Northwestern University in 1986, winning the prize for top essay. She wrote about Henry James and travel, focusing on the fact that he had never written about her birthplace, Belgium. She went on to study at Liaoning University, Shenyang, China, graduating with a degree in Chinese Language in 1989. In 2006, she earned a Master's Degree in journalism from New York's Columbia University.
In March 2007, she joined the staff of NPR News as FBI correspondent covering the bureau both at home and abroad. She previously worked as City Hall Bureau Chief for the New York Sun and as foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia. While in Asia, Temple-Raston opened Bloomberg's Shanghai and Hong Kong offices and covered financial markets and economics for both USA Today and CNNfn.[1][2]
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Her first book, A Death in Texas, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program Award and was chosen as one of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2002. Her second work, Justice on the Grass, on the role the radio station Radio Mille Collines played in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, was a Foreign Affairs magazine bestseller. She has written extensively on civil liberties and national security, including In Defense of Our America (co-written with Anthony D. Romero) on civil liberties in post-9/11 America. The Jihad Next Door is her fourth and latest non-fiction work, about the Lackawanna Six, America's first so-called sleeper cell.[3]
