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Homelands & Marketplace Present Series on Global Work Each WORKING profile brings us deep into the life of a single worker in the global economy. This month, Kelly McEvers introduces us to Hussein Ralib Esfandiari, a trader who captains a wooden cargo boat, or dhow, across the perilous Persian Gulf between Dubai and his native Iran. More...
Weisman's World Without Us is TIME's Book of the Year What would happen to our planet if humans were to vanish? Alan Weisman provides the answers in his best-selling book The World Without Us. TIME and Entertainment Weekly rated it #1 in nonfiction for 2007. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. More... Tolan's Lemon Tree Book Wins Christopher Award Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East was cited for "affirming the highest values of the human spirit." A finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, the book grew out of a documentary Sandy produced for NPR's Fresh Air. More...
"Against the Odds" Airs on Radio Stations Nationwide Against the Odds, a project headed by Newsweek columnist Ellis Cose, launched with an article in Newsweek, a web package, and a radio special produced and edited by Jon Miller and distributed by PRI. Against the Odds tells stories of people facing and overcoming adversity.
Global Warming Collaboration Wins George Polk Award
A team of UC Berkeley journalism students led by Sandy Tolan won a George Polk Award for Early Signs, a series of reports on global warming from around the world. Radio pieces aired on Living on Earth and American RadioWorks, and articles appeared on Salon.com.
Sandy
Tolan
Sandy Tolan has reported from more than 30 countries, and has won many major awards for his radio documentaries and his writing. The author of two books, he teaches journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. More...
Alan
Weisman
Alan Weisman has written five books, including the best-selling The World Without Us. His work has appeared in Harper's, Discover, Atlantic Monthly, NY Times Magazine, and LA Times Magazine. He teaches journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. More...
Jonathan
Miller
Jonathan Miller is Homelands' executive director and executive producer of the WORKING and Worlds of Difference series. A longtime freelancer for newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV, he's an Affiliated Scholar at the Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University. More...
Cecilia Vaisman
Cecilia Vaisman has reported widely on the environment, human rights, race and ethnicity, and AIDS. A former staff producer for NPR's All Things Considered, she is a Visiting Fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. More...
