Dina Temple-Raston
Dina Temple-Raston is a correspondent on NPR's Investigations team focusing on breaking news stories and national security, technology and social justice.
Previously, Temple-Raston worked in NPR's programming department to create and host I'll Be Seeing You, a four-part series of radio specials for the network that focused on the technologies that watch us. Before that, she served as NPR's counter-terrorism correspondent for more than a decade, reporting from all over the world to cover deadly terror attacks, the evolution of ISIS and radicalization. While on leave from NPR in 2018, she independently executive produced and hosted a non-NPR podcast called What Were You Thinking, which looked at what the latest neuroscience can reveal about the adolescent decision-making process.
In 2014, she completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University where, as the first Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism, she studied the intersection of Big Data and intelligence.
Prior to joining NPR in 2007, Temple-Raston was a longtime foreign correspondent for Bloomberg 暗黑爆料 in China and served as Bloomberg's White House correspondent during the Clinton Administration. She has written four books, including The Jihad Next Door: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror, about the Lackawanna Six terrorism case, and A Death in Texas: A Story About Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption, about the racially-motivated murder of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas, which won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers prize. She is a regular reviewer of national security books for the Washington Post Book World, and also contributes to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Radiolab, the TLS and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others.
She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and she has an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College.
Temple-Raston was born in Belgium and her first language is French. She also speaks Mandarin and a smattering of Arabic.
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The FBI is combing through the life of the man they say opened fire in an Orlando nightclub. President Obama characterized him as "an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized."
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A Somali-American, who pleaded guilty to attempting to join the Islamic State, has been approved for America's first jihadi rehab program. His counselor explains the de-radicalization process. -
To fight radicalization of young Muslims, a German program applies lessons from an unexpected source: reformed neo-Nazis. "There is a commonality between extremist ideologies," says a counselor.
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The story of a young Danish Muslim woman who was lured by a radical Islamist shows how a grass-roots program is fighting the influence of ISIS recruiters. The key: harnessing mothers' intuition. -
Many criminals are radicalized in prison and seem particularly receptive to the Islamic State message. It's leading to a new type of jihadist 鈥� part gangster, part terrorist. -
The ISIS cell behind this week's attacks in Brussels may have aspired to build a radiological bomb, officials with knowledge of the investigation say.
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ISIS has lost a lot of territory but that hasn't translated into a loss of supporters. The reason: the group has convinced its followers that defeat is part of a larger plan.
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Earlier this month, a man opened fire on a Philadelphia policeman. The suspect later told police he did it for ISIS, but authorities have found no link between him and the extremist group. -
The bomb threat that disrupted the lives of millions of people in Los Angeles Tuesday had a decidedly different effect in New York City, which received a similar email threat to its schools late Monday night. Authorities in New York, however, concluded the email was a hoax and schools remained open Thursday. NPR explains why the two cities had such decidedly different reactions.
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Investigators continue to discover new details about the two people behind the attack in San Bernardino, Calif. Authorities say both were radicalized for years even before they met and married.