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Ali Velshi On Journalism, Citizenship, And Moving To Prime Time

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member is taking over The 11th Hour. Today, he gives a final word on the vitally important role of reporters bearing witness to the people.

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Ali Velshi On Journalism, Citizenship, And Moving To Prime Time

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member is taking over The 11th Hour. Today, he gives a final word on the vitally important role of reporters bearing witness to the people.

BY Ali Velshi

Jun. 08, 2026

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This is the last Velshi show. For more than six years, the newsroom behind the show has been filled with journalists who chose this work at the exact moment in American history when it was most needed and most contested and most dangerous.

Bearing witness has never mattered more than it does right now. And you don’t have to be a journalist to bear witness. History is filled with people who bore witness and held power to count. We will not look away. Because contrary to what the people counting on your indifference want you to believe, citizenship in a democracy is not something you are handed. It is something you do — a choice to show up and engage with your neighbors, your community, your country. And in this moment, your country needs you.

Ali Velshi is taking over The 11th Hour on MS Now. Today he gives a final word on the vitally important role of journalists bearing witness to the people.

 

LISTEN: JOURNALISTS BEAR WITNESS

 

WATCH: VELSHI REFLECTS ON THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM

 

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