National Public Radio science correspondent Richard Harris got called into work in the middle of the night when the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. Soon he was on a flight to Tokyo, where he spent the next two weeks reporting on the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Back home, Harris talked with News Director Sally Mauk at MJR's request about the challenges of covering the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster..
Montana Public Radio April 4th 2011 by gbrowne
Bitter harvest, by Jerry Redfern
More than 40 years after U.S. warplanes dropped thousands of bombs on Laos, unexploded ordnance is still claiming victims. A book on UXO by photographer Jerry Redfern and his wife, writer Karen Coates, will soon be published. In a second series, Redfern looks at life in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Click on photo to see slideshow.)
Rice production in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is threatened by rising sea levels, pesticides and other chemicals. UM graduate student Kevin Radley traveled there in January. (Click on photo to see slideshow).
The Pearl Project in action, by Douglas Adesko
An investigative journalism seminar at Georgetown University identified 27 men involved in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl in Pakistan in 2002. Here's a quick look at the students and faculty in action. The photos were taken by Douglas Adesko for Marie Claire magazine and are used by permission. (Click on photo to see slideshow).
