Leah’s Reporter’s Notebook #3: Tennessee Tornadoes
Like so many well intentioned journalists before me, I am a lover of lists. Nothing helps me feel more in control than staring down at a fresh, thoughtful, thorough to-do list.
Leah’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Africa, Planet Earth, Milky Way Galaxy
“Where did you live before moving to the U.S.?”
“Africa.”
The first time this exchange occurred, it struck me as odd but unremarkable.
Leah’s Reporter’s Notebook #1: Do as the Romans Do
I never went to journalism school, but I often imagine that on the first day of it, students are given some sort of handbook full of Official Journalism Rules.
Emily’s Reporter’s Notebook: Sounds & Silences
I hope that in creating these pieces, we can convey even a small slice of what life is like in Mongolia — the sounds and the silences. All the moments worth waiting for.
Durrie’s Reporter’s Notebook: You Never Walk Alone
In small town Papua New Guinea, you never walk alone.
Rebecca’s Reporter’s Notebook #4: What I Learned in the Arctic
It’s funny, the things I originally planned to learn during this reporting trip. They were the most vague, grandiose lessons, as if, in a few months, I’d magically master things that have eluded me for decades.
Rebecca’s Reporter’s Notebook #3: Arctic Travel Zen
It’s something we don’t talk about much: the waiting. International reporting has a (somewhat deserved) reputation for being exciting and scary and full of illuminating anecdotes about far-flung places. And sure, all those things are true. But the sexy parts are the exception.
Rebecca’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: To Ittoqqortoormiit We Go
Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland sits about 400 miles above the Arctic Circle, at the edge of the largest fjord in the world.
Rebecca’s Reporter’s Notebook #1: Because, It Because (Or, Why I’m Not Going to Siberia)
I’m not going to Chukotka this winter. Because, it because. But I will be reporting on the problem of suicide and depression in the Arctic. I’ll be in Ittoqqortoormiit and Nuuk, Greenland. No visa required.
Emma’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Back on the Board
Emma wrapped up her reporting trip in Marseilles, France, where she visited Eric Dargent, 37, who lost part of his leg in a 2011 Réunion shark attack.
Emma’s Reporter’s Notebook #1: In the Mist
The only thing I can try to explain is that the path these two are walking along, on either side, the ground drops off abruptly by hundreds of meters.
Andrés’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Beautiful Improvisation
From start to finish, working in Cameroon was a real challenge driven by significant improvisation.
Andrés’s Reporter’s Notebook #1: Detour
Just hours before preparing to head back to the States, instead of taking a cab to the airport, I got on a bus heading toward the border with Central African Republic.
Matt’s Reporter’s Notebook: Stuck in the Mud
I was given specific advice before I left the country. Often, it was logistical – places to stay in Uganda, how to get around. And then there was something my editor, Didi Schanche, offered up before I left, which was this: Be patient.
Nina’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: A Long Journey
With time and patience an idea becomes an application becomes a visa becomes a trip to Guangzhou, China, which becomes a story that you will listen to as you commute to work.
Nina’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Welcome to Little Africa
My first day in Guangzhou, China, I stood on a footbridge for nearly an hour just watching the thoroughfare below.
Brian’s Reporter’s Notebook: Edge of the Map
Brian captured this other-worldly photo in Kiribati, a string of tiny coral atolls and one island in the far Pacific — a country that could very well disappear within the next 50 years.