Asheville, NC, USA
17 reviews$200 - $500 / Day
Freelance writer and reporter with experience covering local news and international press freedom.
Produced for Voice of America - English
Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna has been missing for nearly three months. Her family and friends fear she was taken captive by Russian forces.
Produced for Voice of America - English
On the anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini's death, Iranian journalists and the organizations who protect them discuss how things have changed for better and worse.
Produced for Voice of America - English
Turkey ranks number one globally in violations against women and nonbinary journalists according to data from the Coalition For Women in Journalism. Analysts worry the legal harassment on the press is leading to self-censorship.
Produced for Voice of America - English
Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery was recently awarded the International Women's Media Foundation's Wallis Annenberg Justice for Women Journalists award for her courage and fearlessness. Moaiery, who has had a 23-year career reporting conflict and disaster around the world, was arrested last September while covering the protests in her home country of Iran. She has been charged with a six year prison sentence and three year ban from practicing journalism.
Produced for Voice of America - English
When an emergency session repealed press freedom for Mvskoke Media, a news source covering the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, reporter Angel Ellis set to work advocating for change. A new documentary "Bad Press" documents her years-long fight for press freedom and highlights an issue that is common in tribal communities.
Produced for Voice of America - English
PTSD has been an official medical diagnosis in America since 1980, but it's taken much longer for newsrooms to acknowledge the impact of trauma-- both first-hand and through bearing witness-- on newsrooms. Bruce Shapiro and Hannah Storm, two leaders in the field, discuss trauma's impact on journalists and survivors and the importance of trauma-informed training and mental health support.
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