Jonathan's+Research+on+Drew+Levinson

• Drew Levinson has been a correspondent for **CBS Newspath**, the affiliate news service of **CBS News**, since July 1997. He has been based in New York since October 2002. Prior to that, Levinson was a **CBS Newspath**correspondent based in Chicago (2001-02) and Detroit (1997-2001). ([])

• Drew Levinson reports on the discovery of a boy who appears to be Jennifer Hudson's nephew: []

• Levinson has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has also reported from Kuwait and Pakistan. He has been in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza several times to cover the uprising and the Israeli elections.([])

• [|David Lynch]'s [|1986] film //[|Blue Velvet]// was set in Lumberton, though it was actually filmed in nearby [|Wilmington]. This situation raised some problems during filming, so Lynch filmed a small sequence in Lumberton and was subsequently allowed to use the name. On [|July 23], [|1993] , [|James R. Jordan, Sr.], father of [|basketball] legend [|Michael Jordan], was murdered at a rest stop off of [|Interstate 95] near Lumberton. Alice Faye Williams, a.k.a [|Afeni Shakur]; a prominent member of the [|Black Panther Party] and more famously, the mother of the rapper [|Tupac Shakur], was born in Lumberton on [|January 10], [|1947]. ([])

Questions:

1. In what ways, if any, do you draw from your childhood in Lumberton, North Carolina for your work as a reporter?

2. What, in your opinion, are the most reliable sources of information coming out of The Middle East right now? The people, twittering, Al Jazeera, our military, our government, other governments, etc.? What is the best way for average citizens like us to learn more about the political, social, and religious situation in The Middle East?