Author Omar Rashad Omar's Latest Articles Q&A: Yousef Munayyer on Western media’s complicity in Israel’s occupation of Palestine By Omar Rashad ● News ● October 10, 2023 Double standards are at the heart of lopsided news coverage unlikely to center Palestinian experiences under an apartheid regime. ‘This is the Boogeyman’: San Diego Union-Tribune staff devastated by sale to hedge-fund-owned media group By Omar Rashad ● News ● July 12, 2023 The paper’s sale to an Alden Global Capital subsidiary caught staffers — and management — off guard. Employees know what's ahead: staff reductions. Journalism’s influential awards lack diverse judges By Bahar Ostadan, Samson Zhang, Yiwen Lu, Brammhi Balarajan & Omar Rashad ● Commentary ● August 9, 2022 How the journalism industry’s elitism locks out folks from underrepresented backgrounds By Omar Rashad ● Commentary ● September 14, 2020 When a journalism executive suggested I could have gotten an internship if I wasn’t attending a community college, he perpetuated systemic barriers.