Wajahat S. Khan is a broadcast and online journalist who has produced and anchored for Pakistan’s primary networks: Geo, Dawn and Aaj TV. Khan has also written and edited for Pakistani dailies Dawn and Express Tribune and the periodicals Newsweek Pakistan and The Herald. He was embedded with Pakistan’s ground-forces along some of the world’s most isolated and militarized borders investigating the tactical, operational and strategic postures of the Pakistani military, and was the first broadcaster from Pakistan to produce an investigative series from across the “divide” in India. He has helped pioneer the use of Facebook and Twitter in Pakistani television broadcasts. Wajahat Khan graduated from the University of Michigan in 2002 and covered the initial phase of the war in Afghanistan for The Michigan Daily newspaper. At the Shorenstein Center, he researched and wrote a paper investigating the role of right-wing thinkers and organizations, along with Pakistan’s military intelligence apparatus and jihadist groups, in shaping the discourse on the country’s social networks.
Snake and Stranger: Media Coverage of Muslims and Refugee Policy
June 22, 2017
Photo: Dulles International Airport travel ban protest, Geoff Livingston. A new paper by Meighan Stone, Entrepreneurship Fellow (spring 2017) and former president of the Malala Fund, argues that the predominantly negative coverage of Muslims and refugees on U.S. TV news contributes to negative public opinion of Muslims, and in turn, policies such as President Trump’s “Muslim ban.” In
