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Homelands Wins National Award for WORKING
The Society of Professional Journalists has named Homelands Productions the winner
of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Radio Feature Reporting for WORKING, a series of profiles of workers in the global economy. The series is also a finalist for two New York Festivals awards. WORKING is a collaboration with Marketplace Radio. More...
Latest WORKING Segment Profiles Child Laborer
Babu Hussein dismantles ships in Bangladesh. The work is perilous, the bosses abusive, the hours exhausting. His reward? Just over two dollars a day, and nightmares about being crushed by sheets of steel. Pretty heavy stuff for a 13-year-old kid. Sandy Tolan brings us his story. More...
Worker Browser Lets Workers Compare Experiences
Homelands proudly presents the Worker Browser, an experimental web tool that lets people tell the world what they do all day and what they think about it. Take a look and let us know what you think!
Alan Weisman's World Without Us Tops TIME's List
What would the world be like if humans were to vanish? Alan Weisman provides the answers in best-selling book The World Without Us, TIME's #1 nonfiction title for 2007, now available in paperback. More...
Sandy Tolan's Lemon Tree Wins Christopher Award
Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Booklist's top nonfiction book for 2006, was cited for "affirming the highest values of the human spirit." More...
Ellis Cose's "Against the Odds" Rolls into Second Season
Against the Odds, a project of Newsweek's Ellis Cose, is airing on public radio stations. Four hour-long specials were edited by Jonathan Miller. Against the Odds celebrates people who have triumphed over adversity.
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Sandy
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Sandy Tolan has reported from more than 30 countries, and has won many awards for his radio work and his writing. The author of two books, he's an associate professor of 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.
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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 Cinema at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is working on a documentary she shot in Cuba. More...
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