Ashish Valentine
Ashish Valentine joined NPR as its second-ever Reflect America fellow and is now a production assistant at All Things Considered. As well as producing the daily show and sometimes reporting stories himself, his job is to help the network's coverage better represent the perspectives of marginalized communities.
Valentine was born in Mumbai, India, and immigrated to the United States as a child. Before working in public media, he spent two years in northern France teaching high school English. He joined NPR from Chicago member station WBEZ, where he produced two daily news shows and worked on an award-winning joint WBEZ-City Bureau series investigating racialized disparities in home mortgage lending in Chicago.
Valentine speaks fluent French and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied English Literature.
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Escalation of the Iran conflict is sending shockwaves through global markets — driving up oil, fuel, and commodity prices, stoking inflation and recession risks worldwide. We hear from three NPR reporters in Europe, Asia and Russia.
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Despite rising tensions between the world's two largest economies, a growing number of young Americans are becoming captivated by China, as seen in the online trend "Chinamaxxing." -
Opposition parties are slamming the brakes on billions in defense funding as the China escalates military pressure. -
China's National Bureau of Statistics released data on its 2025 GDP growth Monday. Analysts say it reveals strong economic growth for the country, but ordinary people still face deep challenges.
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The business mogul and activist has been in ailing health and has already spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong before his guilty verdict. -
China's jailing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan highlights a deeper press freedom crisis across Asia. -
A super typhoon barreled through northern Philippines Monday, displacing over 17,000 people. The storm is now bearing down on Hong Kong and southern China.
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President Trump's executive order extends a reprieve from the threat of rising tariffs between the world's two largest economies. -
Amid a wave of national security measures, immigrants from China must prove they've given up their household registration in China by June 30. Many are Chinese women married to men from Taiwan. -
At Taiwan's premier music festival, artists went political with their tunes and lyrics.
