Two Decades of Award-Winning Public Interest Journalism

Homelands Productions is an independent, non-profit journalism cooperative specializing
in radio documentaries. Since its founding in 1990, Homelands has reported from 56 countries,
produced seven series for public radio, and won 22 national and international awards. More...

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Featured Series

WORKING

Intimate, sound-rich portraits of
workers in the global economy. More...

Worlds of Difference

Exploring the impact of global change
on minority cultures worldwide. More...

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Homelands News

Homelands Teams with Magnum on "Hunger Chronicles"
Last year, the number of hungry people surged past the one billion mark. In 2010, reporter-photographer teams from Homelands and Magnum Photos will travel the world seeking the causes of hunger and clues for how to end it. You can help make this project happen! More...

Fonografia Collective Comes Under Homelands Umbrella
Fonografia is a multimedia collaboration between audio and print journalist Ruxandra Guidi and photographer Bear Guerra. They report on human rights, health, the environment, and social issues around the Western hemisphere. Homelands is proud to be their fiscal sponsor.

Multimedia Series Exposes California Hunger Crisis
Produced by Sandy Tolan, USC Annenberg students, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, "Hunger in the Golden State" explores waste, nutrition in schools, the fraying safety net, and ways to help Californians fighting to ward off hunger. More...

Homelands Wins Three National Awards for WORKING
The Society of Professional Journalists has presented Homelands with the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for the WORKING series. Gregory Warner's profile of Congolese miner Fidele Musafiri won awards from the Third Coast Festival and New York Festivals. More...

More News from Homelands Productions

• WORKING profiles now available on iTunes...
• Worker Browser site lets workers compare experiences...
• Alan Weisman's World Without Us now in 33 languages...
• Sandy Tolan's Lemon Tree book wins Christopher Award...
• Cecilia Vaisman's work calls attention to statelessness...

Our Producers

Sandy Tolan
Sandy Tolan has won many awards for his radio work and his writing. The author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, he teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism 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 is 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, she teaches Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is working on a documentary she shot in Cuba. More...

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