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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...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, and WABE
- Added: Jun 30, 2009
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 3
Does what now passes for morality have anything to do with a person’s ability to excel in his profession?
- Added: Jun 25, 2009
- Length: 02:35
Andy learns how to play the recorder.
- Added: Jun 21, 2009
- Length: 05:46
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
My son and I, after many years, were reunited at his home in Mendocino, CA
- Added: Jun 08, 2009
- Length: 15:03
- Purchases: 2
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...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2009
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
David continues his linguistic and cultural education in France.
- Added: May 04, 2009
- Length: 03:41
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...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: May 01, 2009
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 1
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
Animal Communicator David Louis relates a story about his unexpected interaction with a porcupine.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., 'The Sea', PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 13, 2009
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 4
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...
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
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
On 3/26/09 President Obama delivers a snub to millions of Americans who wanted to ask him about ending marijuana prohibition.
- Added: Mar 30, 2009
- Length: 07:25
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
- Added: Feb 25, 2009
- Length: 04:34
- Added: Feb 14, 2009
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
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
