Calvo-Roth broke barriers for women journalists On this week's show, a look at the life of a pioneering female journalist. Fortuna Calvo-Roth was born in 1934 to a Jewish family in Paris, but...
Project Exile: Vietnam journalist went to France after six years in prison "The problems started when I did not confess to any crimes and when I refused to wear the prison uniform" Dang Xuan Dieu has paid a heavy price for...
Project Exile: Turkey’s Dündar free in exile, still threatened "For the Turkish government I am a terrorist. Everybody challenging the government is a terrorist." Can Dündar isn't easily silenced. The...
Peace Corps spurred career of New Yorker’s Hessler On this special edition of Global Journalist, an extended interview with award-winning foreign correspondent and author Peter Hessler. In 1996,...
Project Exile: Russian journalist flees after car fire, feces attack “I just can't stand lies. So whenever I see a lie, I call it a lie.” A decade ago, Russian journalist Yulia Latynina thought dissidents who...
Project Exile: Iranian student journalist fled after detention Omid Rezaee’s work on a university magazine led to his arrest In 2009, incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran’s disputed election...
Project Exile: ‘Caged’ Egyptian journalist fled before sentencing "We have to stand up for each other, otherwise the whole profession is in jeopardy.” Yehia Ghanem had been near the pinnacle of Egyptian...
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...
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...
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...