Ayesha RascoeJournalist Ayesha Rascoe, NPR’s White House reporter, will join WBHM’s Janae Pierre for “Evening Edition” on Thursday, Nov. 12, to discuss this election year and give insights on reporting important stories.
The event is free to attend, but tickets with additional benefits can be purchased in support of public radio news. WBHM aims to raise $100,000 for its Local Journalism Innovation Fund, supporting news reporting, podcasts and other local storytelling projects in Birmingham and Alabama.
Pierre will talk with Rascoe about this historic election year and give us insights on reporting stories that affect our lives.
“All of us here are part of a growing community that values news and information that is unbiased, fair, honest, accurate, and free from commercial and political influence,” said Chuck Holmes, executive director and general manager of WBHM. “In this age and especially this year that was 2020, that is a very valuable commodity.”
Rascoe covers breaking news and policy developments from the White House, and also travels and reports on many of President Donald Trump’s foreign trips, including his 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and his 2018 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. As a part of the White House team, she is also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Prior to joining NPR, Rascoe covered the White House for Reuters, chronicling President Barack Obama’s final year in office and the beginning days of the Trump administration. She began her reporting career at Reuters, covering energy and environmental policy news, such as the 2010 BP oil spill and the United States’ response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011, and also spent a year covering energy legal issues and court cases.