India’s girl shortage [rebroadcast] In the next decade, India may pass China to become the world’s most populous country. But there’s something odd about India’s population. The country has tens of millions fewer women and girls than...
Project Exile: Turkish editor departs after police raid "I realize it was the best decision of my life because I would be imprisoned right now, like my colleagues." Shortly after Turkish police in riot gear raided the headquarters of Zaman Media Group on March 4,...
Insurgents, poor schools plague northern Nigeria [program] Back in 2014 there was an enormous international outcry after Islamic militants from the group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 female high school students the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria. Four years...
Project Exile: Pakistani reporter moves to France after kidnap attempt "I was resisting and they kept hitting me with the butts of their guns." Jumping out of a car to escape being abducted at gunpoint by the Pakistani military isn't exactly how journalist Taha Siddiqui planned...
South Sudan’s standoff [program] When South Sudan became a country in 2011, there was a lot of optimism in a nation where people had endured decades of conflict to win independence from Sudan. But within three years, the country had...
Internet addiction in China [rebroadcast] It’s hardly uncommon for parents to be worried their teenagers are spending too much time online. But in China the concern is particularly acute, where internet cafes in cities often teem with young men...
Project Exile: Uzbekistan continues ban on exiled journalist Hamid Ismailov was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 for what the state dubbed "unacceptable democratic tendencies" Hamid Ismailov deserves an apology. Or at the very least, an explanation. It has been 26...
Project Exile: White Zimbabwean journalist grapples with post-Mugabe era "The question is now, under the change of government, would I be welcome? I'm still being outspoken about what I think." Georgina Godwin grew up in a country at war. Georgina Godwin (courtesy) Born to...
Project Exile: After hunger strike, Egyptian journalist in Qatar fears return "I face probably a life sentence or maybe even worse. The idea of not being able to go back to your own country...is just heartbreaking." Abdullah Elshamy For a time, journalist Abdullah...
Climate change, environment highlight photographer’s work From the Arctic to the Amazon, Joanna Pinneo has made spotlighting climate change a specialty Twenty years ago this month, National Geographic's cover featured Joanna Pinneo's iconic photograph of a sleeping...
