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By: Linda Gradstein on Nov 14, 2009
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In a midwife's office in northern Liberia, I am beckoned closer to examine a young rape victim's cuts and bruises in her most private of places. At that moment, I ask myself, Is it possible for a journ more...
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By: Marcos Federman on Nov 14, 2009
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Walking on the Port of the Tigre Delta, near Buenos Aires, I got hungry for a healthy meal. The sun was intense and I still had things to do in a very busy port when I met Delia, a young lady who lives in more...
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By: Shannon Young on Nov 07, 2009
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My first encounter with wild mushrooms from the Sierra Norte was at Oaxaca City's Central de Abastos market. A vendor from the mountainous region had descended to the sprawling valley market with some exceptionally tasty specimens. more...
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By: Daniel Estrin on Oct 13, 2009
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Your computer can get a virus from the internet. But cancer? more...
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By: Chris Burrell on Oct 10, 2009
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As is often the case, especially with reporters, one story leads to another. You’re tuned in to a conversation with a farmer named Bill, a 40-year-old man who has lost his job as a land surveyor and dec more...
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Reporters
Gretchen L. Wilson is based in Johannesburg, and reports throughout the continent on globalization, power and money. Her work has appeared on Marketplace, The World, Slate, the BBC, CBC, and in The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press. Gretchen is also the co-author of From Dust to Diamonds: Stories of South African Social Entrepreneurs (2007). Her Web site is www.gretchenlwilson.com.
Don Duncan is a freelance print and radio reporter and videographer based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered the country's recent election, it's 2007 political crisis, and the conflict at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp.
His reporting has also brought him to Afghanistan, where he covered the plight of the country's disabled and the advances in development in the north of the country; to Miami, to look into the shifting power-play of Florida's Latino vote, between Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics; and most recently to Nepal and Bhutan where, funded by The Nation Institute in New York, he investigated the beginnings of an insurgency facing Bhutan as it settles into its newly-created democracy.
Originally from Ireland, Don speaks fluent French and Irish. He holds the Bachelor's degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin and Master's degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York.
Don's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Taurai Maduna is a Zimbabwean journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
As a photographer, his work has been used by international news agencies that include Agence France Presse (AFP) and the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA).
As a writer his work has been used by IRIN News and Panos London.
Prue Clarke is an independent reporter specializing in Africa. She has exposed child slavery, corruption in foreign mining operations and a burgeoning child sex industry. Her reporting has won numerous awards in the United States and Canada.
Prue was previously a reporter with the Financial Times newspaper and the ABC.
Prue's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Chris Burrell lives with his son in East Boston, Massachusetts. A freelance radio and television producer, he has contributed work to WGBH and WBUR and to the shows, Here & Now and The Takeaway. He was a staff writer for the Vineyard Gazette and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Chris' recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.