Dina Temple-Raston

Dina Temple-Raston is a Belgian-born American journalist and award-winning author. She is 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 (NPR).

Early life and education

Temple-Raston was born in Brussels, Belgium on 25 August 1965. Her first language was French. She graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California in 1982. She received her Bachelor of Arts with honours 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.

Journalistic career

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]

Bibliography

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 sleeper cell.^[3][4]

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