Jaweed Kaleem is an education reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where he covers news and features on K-12 and higher education. He specializes in reporting on campus activism and culture, including issues on free speech, religion, race and politics.
Kaleem previously worked for The Times as a Los Angeles-based national correspondent and a London-based foreign correspondent. As a national correspondent, he reported on presidential elections, civil rights, race, policing, religion, the environment and health. As a foreign correspondent, he anchored coverage of the Ukraine war and wrote about European politics, economics, tourism and culture.
Kaleem contributed to reporting on the Monterey Park Lunar New Year shooting that was named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Prior to joining The Times in 2016, he reported on religion for HuffPost and the Miami Herald, where he was a member of a Pulitzer Prize finalist team recognized for coverage of Haiti.
His work has also received first-place citations from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society for Features Journalism, the Asian American Journalists Assn., the South Asian Journalists Assn., the National Headliner Awards and the American Academy of Religion.
He is a former vice president of the Religion News Assn. and the Religion News Foundation and was a fellow in religion reporting at the East-West Center and the International Center for Journalists. Raised by Pakistani immigrants, he attended Emerson College in Boston and grew up in Northern Virginia. Follow him on Bluesky, X and Threads.
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