As part of NPR’s national security team, Dina Temple-Raston reports about counterterrorism at home and abroad for NPR News. Her reporting can be heard on NPR’s newsmagazines. She joined NPR in March 2007. Prior to NPR, Temple-Raston was a longtime foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia. She opened Bloomberg’s Shanghai and Hong Kong offices and worked for Bloomberg’s financial wire and radio operations. She also served as Bloomberg News’ White House correspondent during the Clinton administration and covered financial markets and economics for both USA Today and CNN Temple-Raston is an award-winning author. Her first book concerning race in America, entitled A Death in Texas, won the Barnes’ and Noble Discover Award and was chosen as one of the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2002. Her second book, on the role Radio Mille Collines played in fomenting the Rwandan genocide, was a Foreign Affairs magazine bestseller. Her more recent two books relate to civil liberties and national security. The first, In Defense of Our America (HarperCollins) coauthored with Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, looks at civil liberties in post-9/11 America. The other explores America’s first so-called “sleeper cell”, the Lackawanna Six, and the issues that face Muslims in America, The Jihad Next Door.
Temple-Raston holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a Master’s degree from the Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She has an honorary doctorate from Manhattanville College. She was chosen for a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard in 2014 and studied the intersection of Big Data and intelligence. She was born in Belgium and French was her first language. She also speaks some Arabic. She is a U.S. citizen.