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Being a reporter that travels to the far corners of the world sounds exciting, but reporter Michael Kavanagh reminds us in a Reporter’s Notebook th...
- Added: Jun 30, 2009
- Length: 03:41
High school seniors are donning caps and gowns this month and launching themselves into the world. Writer and photographer David Snyder was workin...
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 02:15
13-year old Kyla Middleton aspires to do great things. She sings on the album Give Us Your Poor. It’s a CD of celebrities and homeless musicians....
- Added: Jun 12, 2009
- Length: 01:27
We rely on journalists to bring us the latest news from around the world. They in turn rely on local helpers, or “fixers,” to get what they need f...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: 02:16
15-year old Anthony Kagoma is an AIDS orphan in Tanzania, one of the million children in that country who’ve been orphaned by the epidemic. David ...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: 01:44
Many of those who leave Zimbabwe for South Africa are children and teenagers. When Tendai Maphosa was in the border town of Musina, he saw scores ...
- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 02:09
During Pope Benedict‘s recent trip to the Middle East, he called for greater respect for women. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd would endorse tha...
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- Added: May 15, 2009
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
The town of Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place in the world where tanzanite is found. This deep blue gemstone is said to be a thousan...
- Added: May 01, 2009
- Length: 02:08
April 25th is World Malaria Day. What’s it like to come down with malaria? Reporter Will Everett call tell you. He came down with a case of mala...
- Added: Apr 24, 2009
- Length: 02:33
It’s off the coast of Somalia where pirates are seizing ships carrying oil and food aid. Somalia is considered by many a failed state – volatile a...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 24, 2009
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 1
In Bangkok, Thailand, the warmer weather and lots of water provide a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. But Global Post correspondent Patrick...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
Writer Kelsey Timmerman and his brother were on a trip to Honduras and enjoying the jungle, the hammock, and the river that flowed right by their b...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
Jews around the world celebrate Passover this week. The holiday recounts the Biblical story of the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. There’s...
Bought by BSR Radio
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 1
It’s usually bad or sad stuff we hear about when it comes to the developing world. But reporter Conrad Fox discovered bad and sad may all be in th...
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:29
The Nahr Al Bared refugee camp in Lebanon was built in 1949 as a temporary camp for thousands of Palestinians displaced by the creation of the stat...
- Added: Mar 26, 2009
- Length: 02:13
In the Sudanese capital Khartoum, scores of babies are abandoned every year.That’s mostly because they are born out of wedlock, but sometimes becau...
- Added: Mar 26, 2009
- Length: 02:55
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:49
The recent fighting in Gaza has led to tension throughout the region.
That tension inevitably affects foreigners. Reporter Will Everett was in Sy...
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 03:21
Journalists often face danger in the course of their work. Sometimes it’s from hostile governments, sometimes from warring factions, sometimes fro...
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 04:22
The International Labor Organization estimates nearly a quarter of a billion children around the world work in some form of full-time employment. ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Cambodia has one of the world’s worst records on deforestation. But there is a 2,900 acre preserve of forest where local villagers have realized t...
- Added: Jan 16, 2009
- Length: 02:08
This audio essay is based upon a near accident during a winter weekend drive from Boston to New York City.
- Added: Jan 03, 2009
- Length: 04:47
A personal audio essay about my Italian-American Nani teaching me the importance of showing love through cooking.
- Added: Jan 03, 2009
- Length: 06:19
- Added: Dec 18, 2008
- Length: 05:52
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 07:11
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