Blogs
Blogs
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By: Shannon Mullen on Jun 05, 2010
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Nearly everywhere you look in India there's a glorious riot of color. I stumbled across these fiery red chilies sun-drying on the ground in the courtyard of a Hindu temple in Savoi Verem, a tiny rural village in the steamy south Indian state of Goa. more...
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By: Marcos Federman on May 08, 2010
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In most of the world, some jobs are tough and not very well paid. If you are a construction worker you will most probably be among the lower class of your society. more...
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By: Rachel Louise Snyder on Jan 25, 2010
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The Melbourne Museum is one of the most incredible museums I've ever visited. They have a whole jungle with its own ecosystem built right in the middle of it.
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By: Grant Fuller on Dec 19, 2009
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It was just a little story about a bunch of guys building a giant Christmas tree of metal. I could just waltz up to the construction site, talk to a few workers, record some crane noise and be done with i more...
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By: Chris Burrell on Dec 12, 2009
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I live in East Boston, Massachusetts, where there's a palpable Latino feel to the neighborhood, mostly El Salvadoran and Colombian. You can literally smell the fresh tortillas in the air when you emerge a more...
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Gretchen L. Wilson is based in Johannesburg, and reports throughout the continent on globalization, power and money. Her work has appeared on Marketplace, The World, Slate, the BBC, CBC, and in The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press. Gretchen is also the co-author of From Dust to Diamonds: Stories of South African Social Entrepreneurs (2007). Her Web site is www.gretchenlwilson.com.
Heba Aly is a Khartoum-based freelance journalist. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in both radio and television, as well as many of Canada's largest daily newspapers. She has also worked for the United Nations' humanitarian news service (IRIN) in Senegal, West Africa and Chad, central Africa.
As a freelancer in Sudan, Heba has contributed news and features to various outlets, including the Globe and Mail, Christian Science Monitor, Public Radio International and IRIN. She speaks fluent Englsh and French, and also speaks Arabic and Spanish.
Marcos' passions are social communications, radio, culture, people, and traveling. His favorite radio programs are technology and traveling. He says, "I love walking the world."
Marcos was part of the founding interdisciplinary team that created a psychiatric radio program in Argentina, and he has created a documentary on the subject. He works as a reporter for a few radio stations.
Hailing from New Zealand, James Addison works as senior editor for World Vision Magazine, a publication of World Vision in the U.S.
He is currently on scene in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, covering the effects of the massive January 12 earthquake for World Vision, and relief efforts.
Ben Gilbert is a freelance radio, newspaper and magazine reporter based in Beirut, covering Middle East news, culture, conflict and economics.
His reports from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates have aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Public Radio International's The World, American Public Media's Marketplace and Weekend America, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC and ABC Radio.
His magazine and newspaper articles have appeared in US News and World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Telegraph and The San Francisco Chronicle.
He is currently the Lebanon correspondent for globalpost.com.