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Sebastian Walker
Sebastian Walker is a correspondent for Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English's flagship program about the Americas based in Washington, DC.

Before joining Fault Lines, Sebastian reported from Haiti for Al Jazeera, the only international TV news network to maintain a bureau in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake. He arrived on the ground less than 24 hours after the earthquake hit and stayed on for a year and a half to document progress of the relief effort.

Prior to joining Aljazeera's Americas broadcast center in 2008, Sebastian was based at the Middle East headquarters where he helped to launch the channel. He has worked for various international news organisations including Reuters and AFP, reporting from locations around the region including Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.

In the Press
Every major news outlet has covered Rushing's career: The Daily Show, The Today Show, Anderson Cooper 360, NPR's Fresh Air and All Things Considered, The O'Reilly Factor, GQ Magazine (read the unabridged version on author Matt Power's website), Fast Company (cover), the LA Times (front page), USA Today (front page), the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and countless more.

What They've Said:
 * “Mr. Rushing as a sort of AlJazeera Anderson Cooper: the same earnest emotiveness, the same blue-eyed magnetism.... He has that charisma—a presence that pops....” The New York Observer
 * “What's the opposite of the Ugly American? Josh Rushing fills the bill.” The Wall Street Journal
 * “AlJazeera’s Matt Lauer” GQ Magazine
 * “Open, earnest, articulate—characteristics that should make any American proud.” L.A. Times
 * “Earnest and thoughtful, a patriot and a skeptic—with shrewd observations…” Salon.com
 * “His star turn made blue-state audiences swoon and marked him as a matinee idol for the nervous new century: a U.S. Marine, clean-cut, thoughtful, culturally sensitive....The hunk of war.” The New York Observer