Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
'Midnight Traveler' shows tenuous lives of refugees [rebroadcast]
By  • 26 December 2019
After being threatened by the Taliban, filmmaker Hassan Fazili was forced to flee Afghanistan. Like thousands of others, he and his family set out for Europe seeking safety and a stable life. What follows is…
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'Combat Obscura' gives unfiltered view of Afghan war
By  • 24 May 2018
The war in Afghanistan is America's longest-running conflict in its history. This October will mark 17 years of U.S. combat troops in the country, with seemingly no end in sight. There have been countless images and…
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Film highlights Syrian generation's demise
By  • 10 August 2017
The level of violence against civilians in the Syrian civil war has made it extraordinarily difficult for journalists to cover. That's meant many of the images we have from inside Syria come from citizen journalists…
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Malaysia's 1MDB and Europe's migrants
By  • 2 June 2017
On this two-part edition of Global Journalist, a look at political corruption in Malaysia and a controversial new film about migration to Europe. In Malaysia, the country's politics have been in turmoil for two years…
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Female Kurdish guerrillas battle ISIS, stereotypes
By  • 18 May 2017
Many groups around the world are involved in the battle against the Islamic State. But one group stands out more than the rest: that's a group of women guerrillas from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or…
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'The War Show' follows Syrians 'losing their future'
By  • 30 March 2017
The level of violence against civilians in the Syrian civil war has made it extraordinarily difficult for journalists to cover. That's meant many of the images we have from inside Syria come from citizen journalists…
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'Sherpa' highlights Everest's inequalities
By  • 22 December 2016
  Sherpa guides and porters do much of the work of getting foreign hikers up Mt. Everest. But despite doing an incredibly dangerous job in a lucrative industry, they receive just a small fraction of…
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The life and death of James Foley
By  • 21 July 2016
For many Americans, the Islamic State was first burned in our minds as a threat back in August 2014. That’s when the terror group released chilling video of American journalist James Foley being beheaded by…
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'Sherpa' highlights Everest's inequities
By  • 2 June 2016
  Sherpa guides and porters do much of the work of getting foreign hikers up Mt. Everest. But despite doing an incredibly dangerous job in a lucrative industry, they receive just a small fraction of…
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