Field reporters for America Abroad radio
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Drawing on a pool of independent reporters from all over the globe, America Abroad informs and engages listeners with communities and individuals whose voices are rarely heard. Our reporters work to highlight the people and policies Americans need to know about in an increasingly connected world.
August's program, Mexico: Looking Forward, brought together these talented individuals:
Martha Little served as the editor in this month’s program. Currently, she is the News Director at WBUR in Boston. Before joining WBUR in 2009, Little worked as the senior supervisory editor of the National Public Radio mid-day news program Day to Day, based in Los Angeles. Little served as senior news editor for American Public Media’s daily business radio program, Marketplace, for which she shared a prestigious Peabody Award for “Show Excellence” in 2000. Little was honored with a second Peabody Award in 2006 for a piece she edited on Mexican immigration. In 2003, she won a Gracie Award in recognition of her editing of a radio story on women in business. She also won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards this year.
Jennifer Collins got her start in radio with the program Marketplace just as the U.S. economy was showing the first signs of financial crisis. She's been reporting on economic issues ever since. Collins received honors in radio journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has reported for newspapers in Oregon, Alaska and Cambodia. Currently, she's based in Mexico City, where she's becoming a connoisseur of street tacos and mezcal.
Listen to her segment, Mexico's struggling schools »
Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Franc Contreras is a veteran freelance journalist who has been living and writing from Mexico City and around Latin America since 1996. He has travelled and reported from all across Mexico, Central America and much of South America, and hundreds of his stories have been broadcast globally on major international news media including Al Jazeera English television, BBC World Service Radio, CBS Radio and TV, CBC Radio in Canada, Public Radio International in the United States.
Listen to his segment, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI): A return to power »
Michel Marizco is a border reporter for the Fronteras Desk, a local journalism center based at KJZZ, public radio Arizona. He's reported along the Southwest border for past decade, focusing on transnational trafficking syndicates, immigration, and the actions of both countries along the international boundary. In his spare time, he reports on those weird, wild stories that can only happen in the Arizona-Mexico border region.
Listen to his segment, Fast & Furious fallout »
July’s program, Religious Minorities in the Middle East, brought together these talented individuals:
Mid-East specialist and author Joseph Braude has written two books on Arab affairs. His work appears in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times Magazine, among other publications. In addition to his English-language broadcasts in the United States, he hosts a weekly broadcast in Arabic on Moroccan national radio.
Listen to his segment, Declining religious diversity in the Middle East »
Global Productions/Tunisia Live is a team of young Tunisians and Anglophone foreigners that aims to provide the world with independent, objective multimedia content about Tunisia in English. Formed shortly after the revolution by a group of young tunisians who studied in America, Global Productions/Tunisia Live has provided production assistance to renowned international media including CNN, CBS News, The New York Times, Al Jazeera English, and many others. The team of about 40 people, whose average age is 25, also runs a news website, Tunisia Live, which was among the first media outlets in Tunisia to broach previously taboo subjects such as government corruption, police violence, and female sexuality.
Listen to their segment, Jewish life in Tunisia under Islamist rule »
Nadeen Shaker is a Journalism and English Literature senior at the American University in Cairo (AUC). When not at university, she is a photographer, avid reader, protestor, blogger, and reporter. She has been involved with student publications since her early university years and served on their editorial boards. She freelances for various national and independent news outlets in Egypt.
Listen to her segment, Egypt's Coptic Christian community »
June’s program, The Global Water Challenge, brought together these talented individuals:
Mid-East specialist and author Joseph Braude has written two books on Arab affairs. His work appears in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times Magazine, among other publications. In addition to his English-language broadcasts in the United States, he hosts a weekly broadcast in Arabic on Moroccan national radio.
Listen to his segment, The water crisis in Yemen »
Andrew Finkel has been a journalist based in Turkey since 1989 and writes for the both the Turkish language and international press, including the Latiitudes opinion column of the on-line edition of The New York Times. His latest book, Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know, has just been published by Oxford University Press.
Listen to our interview with Andrew Finkel »
Linda Gradstein is a contributer to NPR and a freelance radio and print reporter based in Jerusalem. She has won several awards for her coverage and speaks Hebrew and Arabic fluently.
Listen to her segment, The politics of the Jordan River »
Constanze Letsch is an award-winning journalist based in Istanbul whose work appears in the Guardian, Eurasianet.org, Near East Quarterly and others. She also works on her PhD on the impact of urban renewal projects on the urban poor in Istanbul, and together with photojournalist Jonathan Lewis, runs a blog on urban issues.
Listen to her segment, Turkey: Tapping the Tigris »
Jim Luce is a George Foster Peabody Award winning radio producer for his documentary series on the life of Miles Davis for NPR’s Jazz Profiles. Jim was the Executive Producer and Project Manager for Count Basie’s World (NPR 2006), The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (2000) and The Duke Ellington Centennial Radio Project, and recently produced Rethinking Religion: The Harlem Renaissance, Music, Religion and the Politics of Race for Columbia University’s Institute of Relgion, Culture and Public Life.
Listen to his segment, Mitigating Haiti's water emergency »
Michael Rhee hails from Chicago, Illinois and has worked as a radio producer since 2005. For over two years, he covered developments on the Korean peninsula as a freelancer for National Public Radio, The World and other quality programs. He lives now in Brisbane, Australia with his wife, Nissa and writes on his blog.
Listen to his segment, Droughts and floods: A decade down under »
