Blogs about: Human Interest Beat
Featured Blog
Status Update: Preparing for a Blog Makeover
Already mid-way through summer vacation, I seem to have broken a fundamental blogger code of best practices: be consistent with your posts. Before I give a brief overview of my new vision for this bl… more →
theglobalpulse
Status Update: Preparing for a Blog Makeover
wrote 10 months ago: Already mid-way through summer vacation, I seem to have broken a fundamental blogger code of best pr … more →
Meet Indu Ramesh: A Story of Female Empowerment Through Radio
wrote 1 year ago: Indu Ramesh was busy collecting interviews from village women in Karnataka state, India, in the spri … more →
Animal Noises - Open for Interpretation
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: Around the world, new parents are busy perfecting their animal noises. These animals will become so … more →
Bringing Perspective to Journalist Safety
wrote 1 year ago: This past week, astonished readers around the world goggled their eyes over Samantha Brick’s n … more →
Unlocking the Humanitarian Beat
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: When I began grad school for journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I had every intentio … more →
A Twin Story: 1 Gay Male & 1 Straight Female
— 16 comments
wrote 1 year ago: On May 14th, 1980, Angie Motzko secured her 8-minute-seniority over her brother, Eric. But they wou … more →
Calculating the Value of a Woman?
— 15 comments
wrote 1 year ago: International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world on March 8th. While Mother’s Day seems to … more →
Visualizing Human Rights Data
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Five children around the world die every minute because of chronic malnutrition. Source: Associated … more →
Snow Emergency in Afghanistan
wrote 1 year ago: By Midwestern standards, this has been an unsettling warm winter. An unforgiving blast of cold is qu … more →
Advocacy vs. Activism in Journalism
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, is well known for his commentary on human r … more →
A Tribute to Anthony Shadid: Good Writing
— 3 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Like any other aspiring journalist, I’m attracted to this line of work for idealistic reasons. I rec … more →
A Twitter Intervention in Kyrgyzstan
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: On November 3rd, three men claiming ties to the KGB assaulted photojournalist Nicholas Tanner as he … more →
Parody on Foreign News Coverage in the U.S.
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: Professor JoEllen Fair shared this video in our international communications class: Do you feel fore … more →
David Sedaris Visits Madison, WI
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: The first 10K I ever ran was in Stillwater, Minnesota, with my childhood friend, Kathryn. The small … more →
Charitable Consumerism – an Oxymoron?
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: In order to attract public support, humanitarian organizations need to create a brand. They need a … more →
How to Read the Global Compassion Index
— 4 comments
wrote 1 year ago: A fellow student drew my attention to an opinion piece titled “Becoming Compassionately Numb … more →
Inside Japan with Osnos
wrote 1 year ago: A week after my post addressing the lack of updated information on the nuclear disaster situation in … more →
Has Japan Fully Recovered?
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Nearly seven months ago, cascading natural disasters struck Japan. The earthquake and tsunami claime … more →
Show and Tell, But Don’t Retell
wrote 1 year ago: Last week I attended an anecdotal lecture on one man’s journey through the Ferghana Valley. This ti … more →
