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Rebecca’s Piece #3: Part 1 of 2 — The Arctic Suicides: It's Not The Dark That Kills You
Rebecca Hersher Anne Marler 4/21/16 Rebecca Hersher Anne Marler 4/21/16

Rebecca’s Piece #3: Part 1 of 2 — The Arctic Suicides: It's Not The Dark That Kills You

Rebecca worked with the NPR Global Health and Visuals teams, plus an entire treasure trove of talented NPR co-conspirators, to create a beautiful multimedia series.

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Rebecca’s Piece #2: Dispatches From the Arctic Winter Games
Rebecca Hersher Anne Marler 3/12/16 Rebecca Hersher Anne Marler 3/12/16

Rebecca’s Piece #2: Dispatches From the Arctic Winter Games

Nuuk, Greenland's capital, hosted about 2,000 people for this year's Arctic Winter Games. Rebecca was one of them.

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Rebecca’s Reporter’s Notebook #3: Arctic Travel Zen
Rebecca Hersher, Reporter's Notebook Anne Marler 3/1/16 Rebecca Hersher, Reporter's Notebook Anne Marler 3/1/16

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.

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Rebecca’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: To Ittoqqortoormiit We Go
Rebecca Hersher, Reporter's Notebook Anne Marler 2/3/16 Rebecca Hersher, Reporter's Notebook Anne Marler 2/3/16

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.

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Rebecca’s Piece #1: Sunrise in the Arctic Circle
Rebecca Hersher Anne Marler 1/25/16 Rebecca Hersher Anne Marler 1/25/16

Rebecca’s Piece #1: Sunrise in the Arctic Circle

On November 24, the sun set in the tiny Greenlandic town of Ittoqqortoormiit. When Rebecca arrived in mid-January, it had yet to rise again.

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Rebecca’s Reporter’s Notebook #1: Because, It Because (Or, Why I’m Not Going to Siberia)
Rebecca Hersher, Reporter's Notebook Anne Marler 1/7/16 Rebecca Hersher, Reporter's Notebook Anne Marler 1/7/16

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.

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Emma’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Back on the Board
Reporter's Notebook, Emma Jacobs Anne Marler 7/14/15 Reporter's Notebook, Emma Jacobs Anne Marler 7/14/15

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.

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Emma’s Reporter’s Notebook #1: In the Mist
Reporter's Notebook, Emma Jacobs Anne Marler 5/25/15 Reporter's Notebook, Emma Jacobs Anne Marler 5/25/15

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.

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Andrés’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Beautiful Improvisation
Reporter's Notebook, Andres Caballero Anne Marler 4/14/14 Reporter's Notebook, Andres Caballero Anne Marler 4/14/14

Andrés’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Beautiful Improvisation

From start to finish, working in Cameroon was a real challenge driven by significant improvisation.

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Andrés’s Reporter’s Notebook #1: Detour
Reporter's Notebook, Andres Caballero Anne Marler 3/15/14 Reporter's Notebook, Andres Caballero Anne Marler 3/15/14

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.

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Matt’s Reporter’s Notebook: Stuck in the Mud
Reporter's Notebook, Matt Kielty Anne Marler 5/31/13 Reporter's Notebook, Matt Kielty Anne Marler 5/31/13

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.

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Nina’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: A Long Journey
Reporter's Notebook, Nina Porzucki Anne Marler 4/22/12 Reporter's Notebook, Nina Porzucki Anne Marler 4/22/12

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.

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Nina’s Reporter’s Notebook #2: Welcome to Little Africa
Reporter's Notebook, Nina Porzucki Anne Marler 2/8/12 Reporter's Notebook, Nina Porzucki Anne Marler 2/8/12

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.

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Brian’s Reporter’s Notebook: Edge of the Map
Reporter's Notebook, Brian Reed Anne Marler 2/18/11 Reporter's Notebook, Brian Reed Anne Marler 2/18/11

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.

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