Kat’s Piece #3: A Different Kind of Disaster
“The Olympic flame, originally supposed to be a light of hope for this region, will stay in Japan for the next year. It's already being referred to as a light of hope for the end of coronavirus instead.”
Kat’s Piece #2: Warning Signs
Kat arrived in Japan as the nation was grappling with COVID-19. In this photo essay collaboration with NPR's Claire Harbage, she depicts a nation coming to terms with a pandemic in real time, as tradition confronts new realities.
Kat’s Piece #1: Breaking News
News was breaking just as Kat arrived in Japan, when she filed this piece for NPR's All Things Considered.
Emily’s Piece #6: A Changing Mongolia
This immersive digital narrative from Emily Kwong, Claire Harbage and the amazing NPR Visuals team tells the story of a snake eating its own tail.
Emily’s Piece #5: Part 3 of 3 — The Desert
Mongolia is undoubtedly harmed by fossil fuels. But the mining industry is also creating unprecedented GDP growth. How do these two realities square?
Emily’s Piece #4: Part 2 of 3 — The City
Every winter, the air in Ulaanbaatar — Mongolia’s capital — turns toxic. In 2016, it surpassed Shanghai and Delhi as the most polluted capital in the world.
Emily’s Piece #3: Part 1 of 3 — The Steppe
Introducing Emily's three-part series about climate change in Mongolia, set in three locations: the grassland steppe, the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and the Gobi Desert.
Emily’s Piece #2: Camels as Far as the Eye Can See
The two-day Thousand Camel Festival in Bulgan Soum begins with a camel beauty pageant — but it’s what’s on the inside that counts.
Emily’s Piece #1: It’s Like Bowling, But On Ice
In Mongolia, this year’s musun shagai AKA “ice shooting” competition was bumped up two weeks, because the Tamir River was starting to melt.
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 Piece #6: Searching for the Past in WWII Shipwrecks
Durrie looks for sunken planes from World War II near Rabaul.
Durrie’s Piece #5: Redefining Masculinity
The Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea faces one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence. A question for leaders there is how to stop violence against women. One answer: talk to men.
Durrie’s Reporter’s Notebook: You Never Walk Alone
In small town Papua New Guinea, you never walk alone.
Durrie’s Piece #4: Part 2 of 2 —Volunteers Fight Back Against Domestic Violence
In the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, two out of three women will suffer abuse by their intimate partner. It's a longstanding problem that has eluded solution, but is now being addressed by a volunteer network of so-called human rights defenders.
Durrie’s Piece #3: Part 1 of 2 — Partner Violence in Papua New Guinea
As Durrie reports in this powerful piece, the number one indicator of intimate partner violence is not GDP, or income, or literacy rates. It’s social acceptance of abuse. “It’s what the world we live in tells us we can accept.”
Durrie’s Piece #2: Betel Nut Sellers & Domestic Violence
“When men react violently because their wives are earning money on their own, it’s because they see power as a zero-sum game, says Richard Eves, an Australian National University anthropologist who has published several studies on masculinity based on fieldwork in Papua New Guinea’s highlands.”
Stephanie’s Piece #6: Part 3 of 3 — Veriko’s Story
Veriko Ekhvaia had to flee Abkhazia for the first time in 1993, at age 6.
Stephanie’s Piece #5: Part 2 of 3 — Ana’s Story
The first thing that hit Ana Sabashvili when she arrived in Berbuki, in eastern Georgia, was the sound — or rather, the lack of it.
Stephanie’s Piece #4: Part 1 of 3 — Irakli’s Story
Stephanie worked with a team at NPR to build a stunning multimedia piece introducing us to three internally displaced people in Georgia.