October 9, 2010 – 1:27 am
I traveled to a quiet part of the southern coast of Crete for this story on how massive Chinese investment in Greece is being viewed by the Greeks themselves. There have been plans in the works for years for a port on the beach of Kokkinos Pirgos, near the southern Cretan municipality of Timbaki. It [...]
September 26, 2010 – 2:25 pm
So the saga of the Greek economic crisis continues. As everyone who reads the news now knows, Greece is heavily and debt and was on the verge of going bankrupt this spring. To keep Greece from going under, the government drastically cut spending and hiked taxes. Now the country is deep into a recession, and [...]
Am not so thrilled about being back in Greece, which, despite being my country of birth, appears to have the same effect on me that Kryptonite does on Superman. Learning radio has kept me both happy and sane, and it’s kept me busy in the last few weeks. Here are a few pieces on… * [...]
December 17, 2009 – 2:39 am
Thanks to an outstanding editing job by radio journalist extraordinaire David Baron, the first story from my trip to Bangladesh turned out unbelievably well. And it managed to air during the Copenhagen climate talks. A success, all around! I will forever be grateful to the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced [...]
