Alaa Elassar is a basic project reporter and author for NCS’s National Hub. She is predicated in New York City.
Elassar joined NCS in 2016 and was a 3-time intern and freelance author earlier than enlisting with the National group, the place she splits her time between breaking information, explanatory articles and in-depth options.
As an Arab and Muslim American journalist, Elassar is keen on tales about tradition, identification and illustration, particularly these from minority and marginalized communities. Her reporting has spanned subjects throughout Native-American affairs, the Black Lives Matter motion, Asian-American hate, Islamophobia, ladies’s rights, the warfare in Gaza and extra.
Whether she’s reporting breaking information or writing options, Elassar strives to middle the human expertise — pulling in highly effective voices, vivid shade and sharp pictures to deliver her tales to life. She has reported from the scene of a number of mass shootings, together with the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, and the subway shooting in Brooklyn.
Before becoming a member of NCS, Elassar reported for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s politics bureau, the place she wrote quite a few entrance-web page tales, together with a function on how a Georgia regulation helped expose and convey down former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar for sexual abuse.
Elassar is Egyptian Palestinian and was born in Alexandria, Egypt, earlier than immigrating to the United States along with her household. She is a graduate of Georgia State University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.