Chantal Khan Da Silva is a freelance journalist currently working for NBC News,[1] who is a senior reporter and former chief correspondent to Newsweek.[2] She has appeared on news channels from the BBC and NBC networks.[3] Much of her news content is on immigration topics.[4][5]
Personal life
Da Silva grew up in a half Portuguese, half Pakistani household in Toronto, Canada. Both of her parents were immigrants.[6] She is the sister to Danielle Khan Da Silva,[7] founder of Photographers Without Borders.[8][9] She is currently based out of London.[2][10]
Da Silva is best known for her news coverage of immigration and human rights.[12] She has been a staff journalist for multiple publications, including The Independent and CBC News. She has also written independently in many other publications, including The Guardian,[13]Forbes,[14] and CNN.[15] Her work has also appeared in the Dhaka Tribune due to their partnership with Newsweek.[16][17] She once described the struggles of being a freelance journalist, summarizing that it is often hard to get your news stories about migration accepted and placed if you are not a staff journalist and migration is not a hot topic.[18]
Within Newsweek, she was appointed Senior Reporter in 2019,[19][20] and later served as chief correspondent from 2020.[21] She joined NBC News as an editor in 2021.[22]
In 2019, she travelled to Honduras with UNICEF to investigate the fleeing due to violence.[23]
Her work has also been cited in print publications, such as the book The Political Voices of Generation Z.[24]
She was one of the journalists who covered the detainment of Evan Gershkovich, as she published a popular story on in for NBC.[29] Another story of hers that received buzz in other outlets was on 'Mini AOC', an 8-year-old who was pictured impersonating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.[30]
