All Pieces for Round Earth Media

 
Haiti Untold
From: Round Earth Media
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HAITI UNTOLD New one-hour documentary from Round Earth Media January 12, 2019, will mark nine years since Haiti was struck by a devastating earthqu...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KUNM, WBST, KTNA, WNYC and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Immigration Uncovered
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The United States has always been a beacon for those searching for safe haven, for a place to build a better life. Though the barriers are high, an...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WYPR, WRGY, High Plains Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:51:01
  • Purchases: 80
Mexico Uncovered (No Breaks)
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: Next Generation Journalism
Hour long program contains body of show but no newsbreaks or cutaways.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 52:01
Mexico Uncovered
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: Host, Daniel Hernandez
One hour special, taking listeners to the Mexico they don't know, untold stories rich in sound, place and humanity, with host Daniel Hernandez. Th...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGOU, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 36
Roger and Jacqui
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: Roger and Jacqui on the porch of their home, looking out at the Mekong River. , Credit: Mary Stucky
Per capita, Laos is the most bombed country on earth. For nine years, every day, around the clock, the US rained bombs down on much of the country....

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
What's cooking? Dosas.
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: Rashmi and Kabir Sharma eating Dosas in their apartment just north of Delhi., Credit: Mary Stucky
Dosas are a a sort of thin crepe wrapped around a filling -- often potatoes -- as popular in India as pancakes here. Savory. Crispy. Eaten all day ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:45
The profile of a ragpicker in India
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: Lekh Ram weighing newspapers at his shop in Ambala, India. , Credit: Photo by Michael Beebe
Throughout the world it’s sometimes surprising to find people still doing jobs that disappeared in wealthy countries centuries ago. One example: ra...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
Jhai computers
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: School children in Laos work on computers donated by the Jhai Foundation. , Credit: Photo by Michael Beebe
Back in 1966 Lee Thorn was a young American serviceman in the Vietnam War. His assignment: loading bombs onto planes bound for Laos, a small countr...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:13
Hope for Panama hat weavers in Ecuador
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: The finest hats are woven of straw that is so thin and fine it looks like linen. , Credit: Photo by Andi McDaniel
Some of the finest straw hats in the world come from Ecuador. The best sell for hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Most of that money goes to hat...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
Chocolate, gift of the gods
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: School girls eating Dona Maria’s hot chocolate., Credit: Photo by Ginny Grossman
Mexico is the birthplace of chocolate. The story goes that the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl presented his people with a gift from the garden of paradise:...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 1
Bioprospecting in Chiapas
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Traditional Mexican healers have stopped "bioprospecting projects of foreign pharmaceutical companies.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, WAER Syracuse, NY, Here and Now and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 6
Roads on the Isthmus
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Improved roads were supposed to be a side-benefit of NAFTA, but some poor Mexicans are convinced that highways won't improve their lives.

Bought by KUNM and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 2
Corn in Oaxaca
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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US corn imports in Mexico are making it hard for traditional farmers to maintain precious biodiversity.

Bought by KSUT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, and Here and Now


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 4
Timber in Durango
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Community-owned forests in Mexico are tapping into the demand for eco-friendly wood -- at least for now.

Bought by KUNM, Here and Now, and WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 3
Mangroves on the Yucatan
From: Round Earth Media
Series: Here Where We Live: Mexico and NAFTA
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Mexico is trying to balance its lucrative tourism industry with the need to protect fragile coastal ecosystems.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUNM, Here and Now, and WYSO


  • Added: Apr 20, 2005
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 4

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