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By: Kira Neel on Oct 10, 2009
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El Alto is a sprawling, fast growing, dusty city. It is located in the altiplano of Bolivia above the city of La Paz, located in a canyon down below. El Alto has over a million people, few trees, and a gr more...
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By: Chris Burrell on Sep 30, 2009
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It's fair to say it was the vibe at the Salvation Army Family Store that caught my attention and made me feel as if I wasn't just in some random thrift store. Motown music played on the radio, and it see more...
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By: Grant Fuller on Sep 12, 2009
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I'd been warned about venturing over to Plaza Garibaldi at night. Located in the heart of Mexico City's historic downtown, the plaza has a special way of making people (especially foreigners) cringe at th more...
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By: Laura Spero on Sep 08, 2009
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Back in October of 2002, I had just moved to rural Nepal as a volunteer teacher. I was living in a small house with a woman and her two daughters, and this family of three women maintained very close relations with the family next door. So it was only my fourth or fifth night in Kaskikot when I was invited next door for a cooking adventure; I arrived to find Sarasoti Subedi's large family crowded around the fire in the center of the house, frying rings of bread. more...
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By: Grant Fuller on Sep 01, 2009
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Riding around Bamako in a hired taxi, I kept noticing busted-up wooden foosball tables on the streets. Since I'd been told to keep an eye out for possible Street Vendor profiles while in Mali reporting on a different story, I casually mentioned to my translator, Lamine, that it would be great to do some kind of short feature on street foosball tables while I was there. more...
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Judy Martin is an Emmy award-winning journalist more than 20 years in broadcast news specializing in social issues, business and work life culture. A former NYC Correspondent for the Marketplace Morning Report, she now contributes to National Public Radio, CNBC Business Radio, The World Vision Report and News 12 TV Networks in New York.
Contact Judy at http://www.worklifemonitor.com/ or http://www.judymartinspeaks.com/.
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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.
Chris Burrell lives with his son in East Boston, Massachusetts. A freelance radio and television producer, he has contributed work to WGBH and WBUR and to the shows, Here & Now and The Takeaway. He was a staff writer for the Vineyard Gazette and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Chris' recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
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.