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By: Zack Baddorf on Aug 07, 2010
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I had served in the U.S. military for five years, working as a journalist. Most of my time was spent writing stories, taking photos, shooting video, recording audio, and, every so often, standing guard, o more...
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By: Mónica Ortiz-Uribe on Jul 06, 2010
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A few weeks ago I jumped rope for the first time since the fifth grade. I remember how this was absolutely my favorite after-lunch activity on the blacktop with a group of girlfriends. Now, as a young wom more...
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By: Jared Ferrie on Jul 17, 2009
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On a flat, dry plain, to the side of the highway, thousands of tents were lined up in neat rows with mountains hovering in the distance. Many of the 2.5 million people displaced by Pakistan's war against the Taliban had taken refuge in official camps like this one in Swabi. more...
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By: Judy Martin on May 09, 2009
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It was startling at best. Scary, one could argue, and certainly disconcerting. Looking down the barrel of a faux shotgun made of a large tree branch, a man towered over me, screaming, "No press allowed, get back!" more...
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By: Amelia de Sousa on May 09, 2009
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I've worked in poor communities around the world for a long time. What shocked me though the first time I stepped into a favela in Brazil was the nonchalant presence of guns everywhere ... more...
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Heba Aly is a Khartoum-based freelance journalist. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in both radio and television, as well as many of Canada's largest daily newspapers. She has also worked for the United Nations' humanitarian news service (IRIN) in Senegal, West Africa and Chad, central Africa.
As a freelancer in Sudan, Heba has contributed news and features to various outlets, including the Globe and Mail, Christian Science Monitor, Public Radio International and IRIN. She speaks fluent Englsh and French, and also speaks Arabic and Spanish. 
Shannon Mullen is a freelance reporter and film producer based in New England. She is a native of New Hampshire, where she studied Pre-Veterinary Medicine in college and dabbled in professional culinary pursuits before finding her niche in journalism. She has two dogs, lives on a farm, loves traveling and being outdoors. 
Don Duncan is a freelance print and radio reporter and videographer based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered the country's recent election, it's 2007 political crisis, and the conflict at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp.
His reporting has also brought him to Afghanistan, where he covered the plight of the country's disabled and the advances in development in the north of the country; to Miami, to look into the shifting power-play of Florida's Latino vote, between Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics; and most recently to Nepal and Bhutan where, funded by The Nation Institute in New York, he investigated the beginnings of an insurgency facing Bhutan as it settles into its newly-created democracy.
Originally from Ireland, Don speaks fluent French and Irish. He holds the Bachelor's degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin and Master's degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York.
Don's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is an independent radio producer. Her work has aired on Morning Edition, Weekend America, Marketplace, and Voice of America. She also worked for the United Nations Radio News Service in New York City. Anna is fluent in Japanese and Spanish -– with a smattering of French, Mandarin and Kinyarwanda.
Conrad's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Read Conrad's blog for more information.