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Business, Tech & Science — February 14, 2018   

Tahera Rahman Becomes First U.S. News Reporter to Wear Hijab

Original article by Katie Kilkenny published in the The Hollywood Reporter on 02/14/2018

Photo Credit: OurQuadCities
Photo Credit: OurQuadCities

Local 4 News, the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities region on the Illinois-Iowa border, announced that its new on-air reporter, Tahera Rahman, is “the first full-time reporter who is a Muslim woman to wear a hijab on mainstream TV news in the United States.”

Ms. Rahman first started as a news producer, and after two years, worked her way up to the promotion. She recently appeared on air (yes, wearing her hijab) reporting a story about a health clinic. The reporter says that she has faced many challenges in her career – at one point, she was advised to consider not wearing a hijab. After facing many rejections, she says an emotional phone call with her mother persuaded her not to give up.

According to a 2015 Radio Television Digital News Association report, minorities make up 22% of the workforce at local TV stations nationwide and just 14% in smaller news markets. “I didn’t kind of have anyone who looked like me on TV, so I never really thought it was a possibility,” says Ms. Rahman.

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