Andrew R.C. Marshall
Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters and the 2016-2017 president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He was the lead Reuters correspondent for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign and interviewed the president at the White House in 2015. Jeff has been based in Washington since 2008, when he covered the historic race between Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Jeff started his career in Frankfurt, Germany, where he covered the airline industry before moving to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. He is a Colorado native, proud graduate of Northwestern University and former Fulbright scholar.
Twitter handle: @jeffmason1
Revealing Duterte's war with data, cameras and shoe leather
I met her with Reuters colleague Manny Mogato in May 2016 in a slum in Davao City, just after its long-time mayor, Rodrigo Duterte - also known as "The Punisher" - was elected president of the Philippines. Four of Alia's sons were killed in Davao in a brutal anti-drug campaign that Duterte had vowed to take nationwide.
How the families of 10 massacred Rohingya fled Myanmar
KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh Rehana Khatun dreamed her husband came home. He appeared without warning in their village in western Myanmar, outside their handsome wooden house shaded by mango trees. "He didn't say anything," she said. "He was only there for a few seconds, and then he was gone." Then Rehana Khatun woke up. | Video
Monsoon floods and landslides threaten 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
CHAKMAKUL REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh The Rohingya refugees who live in shacks clinging to these steep, denuded hills in southern Bangladesh pray that the sandbags fortifying the slopes will survive the upcoming monsoon. | Video
Monsoon floods and landslides threaten 100,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
CHAKMAKUL REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh The Rohingya refugees who live in shacks clinging to these steep, denuded hills in southern Bangladesh pray that the sandbags fortifying the slopes will survive the upcoming monsoon. | Video
Rohingya refugees test Bangladeshi welcome as prices rise and repatriation stalls
KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh The first Rohingya refugees who arrived on Jorina Katun's farmland in Bangladesh last year were worn out and traumatised after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar. They wept and begged to stay, and Katun, moved by their plight, said yes. | Video
Floating Island - New home for Rohingya refugees emerges in Bay of Bengal
DHAKA/BHASAN CHAR/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh Bangladesh is racing to turn an uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island into home for 100,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar, amid conflicting signals from top Bangladeshi officials about whether the refugees would end up being stranded there. | Video
Floating Island: New home for Rohingya refugees emerges in Bay of Bengal
DHAKA/BHASAN CHAR/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Feb 22 (Reuters) - B angladesh is racing to turn an uninhabited and muddy Bay of Bengal island into home for 100,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar, amid conflicting signals from top Bangladeshi officials about whether the refugees would end up being stranded there.
Special Report - How a secretive police squad racked up kills in Duterte's drug war
QUEZON CITY, Philippines The police who burst into Kathrina Polo's house on a rainy night in August 2016, then shot her husband in the head and heart, spoke a language she recognised but didn't understand: Visayan.
Myanmar's opium crop plummets, but no victory over Asia's narco-boom: U.N.
BANGKOK A "dramatic" drop in opium cultivation in Myanmar underscored a regional boom in demand for illegal synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine, which many Asian countries are struggling to combat, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday.
Special Report - Manila police tell one story of a drug killing. Videos tell another
BARANGAY 19, MANILA The police report was clear. Anti-drug officers shot and injured three men in this poor district of the Philippine capital, then "rushed" them to hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
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