Hosted by Jason McLure, Global Journalist features journalists discussing under-covered international news and human rights issues.
Global Journalist: From Kansas City To Kabul, The Aftermath Of The Afghanistan War Lingers
As the U.S. finished its formal withdrawal from Afghanistan last month, many expressed outrage as the country fell quickly to Taliban forces. For the 20th anniversary 9/11, Global Journalist's Sean Brynda spoke with three veterans in Missouri and journalists around the world to look back on the war's impact at home.
9/11/2021 • 24 minutes, 59 seconds
Global Journalist: From lone wolves to cross-border collaborators
Once cut-throat competitors, journalists are now more frequently working together — often across borders — to investigate social problems that authorities either can't or won't tackle.
12/23/2020 • 18 minutes, 49 seconds
The fight for Voice of America
Over the summer, at the insistence of President Trump, the Senate confirmed Michael Pack as the new director of U.S. Agency for Government Media.
12/5/2020 • 29 minutes, 55 seconds
Global Journalist: Making media accessible
Modern media offers accessible information to a worldwide audience, but barriers still remain. Thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, inconsistent captioning, improper ASL interpretation, and obtuse design hinder many from receiving critical news.
11/18/2020 • 8 minutes, 24 seconds
Global Journalist: Stars and Stripes forever?
Founded on Nov. 9, 1861 in Bloomfield, Mo. by troops under the command of Civil War Gen. Ulysses Grant, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes has followed U.S. troops into battle for more than a century and a half.
11/4/2020 • 28 minutes, 29 seconds
Global Journalist: How the world sees the U.S. election
Americans aren't the only ones awaiting the results of this year's U.S. presidential election with intense interest.
10/31/2020 • 28 minutes, 53 seconds
#MeToo at Three: Are Newsrooms Meeting the Diversity Challenge?
Three years ago this month, stories about movie producer Harvey Weinstein's predatory behavior prompted a tidal wave of revelations about sexual harassment in the workplace and the birth of the #MeToo movement.
10/21/2020 • 28 minutes, 30 seconds
Global Journalist: How a Sports Reporter Challenged Romania's Oligarchy
Tol-on-tan! Tol-on-tan!
5/7/2020 • 28 minutes, 28 seconds
Global Journalist: From Ebola to COVID-19
Two journalists who covered Ebola when victims of an outbreak in Africa came to the United States for treatment six years ago discuss how that experience compares to today's COVID-19 pandemic.
5/3/2020 • 21 minutes, 26 seconds
Global Journalist: Singapore Confronts a Second Coronavirus
For the second time in two decades, Singapore is grappling with a coronavirus.
4/27/2020 • 7 minutes, 35 seconds
Global Journalist: Covering Two Deadly Viruses
At first, it just seemed like an odd story to pursue during a quiet post-Christmas week in the newsroom in 2015. But New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.'s interest in what would become the Zika epidemic has made him something of an expert on viral outbreaks.
4/22/2020 • 7 minutes, 14 seconds
Global Journalist: Photojournalism During a Pandemic
Journalists are first responders too.
4/15/2020 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds
Global Journalist: When a Coronavirus Hit in 2003
A new coronavirus emerging out of Asia, striking panic with the suddenness of its onset, the ease of its spread and the virulence of its impact.
3/27/2020 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds
Global Journalist: Covering COVID in China
During the coronavirus outbreak, Global Journalist is talking to some of the workers on the frontlines. They don't always get the recognition of doctors and nurses, but journalists also are risking — and in some cases — giving their lives to get information to the public.
3/23/2020 • 7 minutes, 3 seconds
From the Global Journalist Vault: Former Hostage Terry Anderson on Press Freedom
While Global Journalist is on hiatus from the KBIA airwaves, a team of student researchers are combing through nearly 20 years of past programs.
2/26/2020 • 28 minutes, 19 seconds
Global Journalist: The Fight for Press Freedom in Asia
Two women journalists who launched online start-up publications in their home countries face eerily similar challenges -- not from the business climate but from the political climate.
2/5/2020 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds
Global Journalist: A Conversation with Jim Lehrer
Missouri School of Journalism alumnus Jim Lehrer talks about his career covering a presidential assassination, two presidential impeachments and 12 presidential debates in an interview at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.
1/16/2020 • 28 minutes, 35 seconds
Global Journalist: PBS Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Speaks Out on Career
Stanley Nelson Jr. came of age as a filmmaker in the 1970s as Hollywood was making 'blacksploitation' films like 'Shaft.'
1/10/2020 • 28 minutes, 35 seconds
Global Journalist: 'Panama Papers' Journalist Describes Sprawling Probe
Marina Walker Guevara has managed two massive global investigations for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
1/3/2020 • 28 minutes, 27 seconds
Global Journalist: "Midnight Traveler" Shows Tenuous Lives of Refugees
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.