Bilingual Journalist
Aisha Al-Muslim is an award-winning journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist at The Wall Street Journal. She is the development producer for audio at the Journal.
Previously, she was the senior editor for newsroom internships at WSJ and a reporter covering bankruptcies and distressed debt for WSJ Pro Bankruptcy. Before that, she was a reporter on the WSJ's Real-Time News Desk, for which she wrote stories about breaking business news, company earnings, mergers and acquisitions, executive changes and economic indicators for the Dow Jones newswires, WSJ.com and the newspaper. At the same time, she used to cover online travel booking companies, cruise line operators, lodging providers, hoteliers, casino operators, car rental companies and other related companies in the travel and tourism industries.
Previously, Aisha was a business reporter at Newsday, covering retail and small businesses on Long Island, New York from June 2014 to November 2017. She also covered some publicly-traded companies, including organic food giant Hain Celestial, celebrity perfumes and fragrances seller Perfumania, fast food chain Nathan's Famous, kitchenware and tableware provider Lifetime Brands, and online florist and gifts company 1-800-Flowers.
From January 2011 to June 2014, Aisha covered the Town of Hempstead, the largest township in the United States with more than 750,000 people, and composed of 22 villages and 37 hamlets.
Aisha was part of the staff at The Wall Street Journal that was named a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist in explanatory reporting for stories about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that "illuminated its enduring effects, describing how the destruction of Black wealth and property burdened future generations." The project, spearheaded by mostly Black reporters and editors, also won a New York Press Club award for special event reporting in a national newspaper for the stories about the historic Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma, widely known as Black Wall Street.
Aisha's investigative story with her colleague Will Van Sant was part of a Newsday series on police misconduct named a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist in the Public Service category. Their story, "Beaten," involved a case of a 19-year-old who was beaten by Suffolk County police officers, went into a coma and later died from his injuries.
A Newsday investigative story that Aisha contributed reporting to won several awards in May 2019. "Pathway to Power," an investigation into the rise of political power broker and businessman Gary Melius, told through a 48-page special section and an extensive digital presentation, chronicled how Melius transformed himself from a onetime West Hempstead street tough guy to the owner of a Huntington castle that became Long Island’s unofficial political clubhouse.
Aisha's contribution included an exclusive sit-down interview with Melius a few years ago, when she was covering the Town of Hempstead for Newsday. She also coordinated and helped secure some of the photos and videos used for the project.
The investigative story about Melius won the President's Choice Medallion from the Society of the Silurians' Excellence in Journalism contest, the New York Press Club's Gold Keyboard award, the New York State Associated Press Association's Investigations & Watchdog Reporting award, the Deadline Club’s newspaper or digital local news reporting award, and the Press Club of Long Island board chose the story for the large-market Robert W. Greene Public Service Award.
Aisha is also a former editor of the Spanish-language community newspaper, El Correo de Queens, and a former reporter for its sister newspaper, The Queens Courier.
Aisha is a December 2009 graduate of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied journalism with a concentration in urban studies. During graduate school, Aisha learned how to write stories, shoot and produce her own videos, use computer-assisted reporting, blog and use social media to promote her work.
Aisha is also a graduate from Lehman College of the City University of New York, where she majored in multilingual journalism, and minored in Italian and Black Studies. She was on the Dean's List and graduated with summa cum laude honors in May 2008.
She has interned at WCBS-TV, WABC-TV, People en Español, CBS Evening News' Weekend Edition, WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, and NY1 Noticias.
She has been a long-time member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She has served as a member of the NAHJ Afro-Latino Task Force, as well the student representative on the NAHJ board from 2007 to 2008.
Born in the Republic of Panama, the Brooklyn resident loves to travel and has a passion for languages including Spanish, Italian, and French. She is fluent in Spanish.
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About Aisha Al-Muslim
Aisha Al-Muslim is an award-winning journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist at The Wall Street Journal. She is the development producer for audio at the Journal.
Previously, she was the senior editor for newsroom internships at WSJ and a reporter covering bankruptcies and distressed debt for WSJ Pro Bankruptcy. Before that, she was a reporter on the WSJ's Real-Time News Desk, for which she wrote stories about breaking business news, company earnings, mergers and acquisitions, executive changes and economic indicators for the Dow Jones newswires, WSJ.com and the newspaper. At the same time, she used to cover online travel booking companies, cruise line operators, lodging providers, hoteliers, casino operators, car rental companies and other related companies in the travel and tourism industries.
Previously, Aisha was a business reporter at Newsday, covering retail and small businesses on Long Island, New York from June 2014 to November 2017. She also covered some publicly-traded companies, including organic food giant Hain Celestial, celebrity perfumes and fragrances seller Perfumania, fast food chain Nathan's Famous, kitchenware and tableware provider Lifetime Brands, and online florist and gifts company 1-800-Flowers.
From January 2011 to June 2014, Aisha covered the Town of Hempstead, the largest township in the United States with more than 750,000 people, and composed of 22 villages and 37 hamlets.
Aisha was part of the staff at The Wall Street Journal that was named a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist in explanatory reporting for stories about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that "illuminated its enduring effects, describing how the destruction of Black wealth and property burdened future generations." The project, spearheaded by mostly Black reporters and editors, also won a New York Press Club award for special event reporting in a national newspaper for the stories about the historic Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma, widely known as Black Wall Street.
Aisha's investigative story with her colleague Will Van Sant was part of a Newsday series on police misconduct named a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist in the Public Service category. Their story, "Beaten," involved a case of a 19-year-old who was beaten by Suffolk County police officers, went into a coma and later died from his injuries.
A Newsday investigative story that Aisha contributed reporting to won several awards in May 2019. "Pathway to Power," an investigation into the rise of political power broker and businessman Gary Melius, told through a 48-page special section and an extensive digital presentation, chronicled how Melius transformed himself from a onetime West Hempstead street tough guy to the owner of a Huntington castle that became Long Island’s unofficial political clubhouse.
Aisha's contribution included an exclusive sit-down interview with Melius a few years ago, when she was covering the Town of Hempstead for Newsday. She also coordinated and helped secure some of the photos and videos used for the project.
The investigative story about Melius won the President's Choice Medallion from the Society of the Silurians' Excellence in Journalism contest, the New York Press Club's Gold Keyboard award, the New York State Associated Press Association's Investigations & Watchdog Reporting award, the Deadline Club’s newspaper or digital local news reporting award, and the Press Club of Long Island board chose the story for the large-market Robert W. Greene Public Service Award.
Aisha is also a former editor of the Spanish-language community newspaper, El Correo de Queens, and a former reporter for its sister newspaper, The Queens Courier.
Aisha is a December 2009 graduate of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied journalism with a concentration in urban studies. During graduate school, Aisha learned how to write stories, shoot and produce her own videos, use computer-assisted reporting, blog and use social media to promote her work.
Aisha is also a graduate from Lehman College of the City University of New York, where she majored in multilingual journalism, and minored in Italian and Black Studies. She was on the Dean's List and graduated with summa cum laude honors in May 2008.
She has interned at WCBS-TV, WABC-TV, People en Español, CBS Evening News' Weekend Edition, WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, and NY1 Noticias.
She has been a long-time member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She has served as a member of the NAHJ Afro-Latino Task Force, as well the student representative on the NAHJ board from 2007 to 2008.
Born in the Republic of Panama, the Brooklyn resident loves to travel and has a passion for languages including Spanish, Italian, and French. She is fluent in Spanish.
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