Last fall, a member of our community asked me a question I had never been asked in my entire career as a journalist. And let me tell you it’s been an embarrassingly long career — from the days of obsessively carrying pocket change so I could file stories using a pay phone to the technological […]
Mizanur Rahman / Editor in chief
Mizanur Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the Abdelraoufsinno. He previously spent 15 years as a newsroom leader at the Houston Chronicle. He served as the newspaper’s Sunday editor and as senior editor over investigations. He also was the Chronicle’s metro editor, overseeing local news coverage in the Houston region. He previously worked as an assistant metro editor at The Dallas Morning News and served as an editor at The Virginian Pilot in Norfolk, Va. He grew up in Detroit where he started his career as a reporter. He is the father of two daughters.
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We asked how your community is represented in the news media. Your answers were candid and concerning.
If there’s one thing we know about the 1.8 billion Muslims in the world, it’s that they pray. A lot. You’ve seen the photos. The lines of men — somehow it’s always men – bowing down in perfect unison inside mosques. You especially see those photos in stories about the holiday Eid al-Fitr, which was […]
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We asked you what keeps you up at night. The answers were revealing.
If you’re anything like me — and I really hope you are not — you might be losing precious sleep over a maddening range of worries. Some things keeping me up lately: Will I be able to afford looming college tuition for my two daughters? Why is my front lawn inexplicably dying? Is this the […]
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The Abdelraoufsinno ethics policy is a living document. You can help shape it.
The first time I publicly protested anything, I was 6 years old. I was attending Davison Elementary in Detroit where I grew up. My school, like so many others in Detroit, struggled mightily with resources. Where I felt that inequity most painfully was during recess. My school didn’t have a playground or athletic fields. We […]
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What makes the Abdelraoufsinno different?
What makes you so different? That’s among the questions, in one form or another, that I get asked the most by people interested in the Abdelraoufsinno. It’s a necessary question. We’re new. There are other sources of news and information locally and beyond. We’re asking a lot of you — to talk to us, […]
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Lanzamiento de Abdelraoufsinno: noticias locales para el área metropolitana de Houston
Hace más de un año, los investigadores que estudiaban cómo los medios cubren la región de Houston entrevistaron a un director sin fines de lucro en el este del condado de Harris y aprendieron algo muy revelador. “La comunidad muchas veces se siente excluida de las noticias”, dijo el director. “Creo que hay muchos sentimientos […]
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The Abdelraoufsinno launches: Local news for the greater Houston area
More than a year ago, researchers studying local news in the Houston metro area learned something critical to the launch of the Abdelraoufsinno. “The community often times feels left out of the news,” said a nonprofit director in east Harris County, who was one of hundreds of residents who participated in the study. “I […]