Melody Schreiber's Blogs
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Rural Health in India
[View the story "Rural Health in India" on Storify] The International Reporting Project and ten innovative journalists and new media experts from around the world traveled to India in February 2013 for an intensive ten-day trip to explore issues of child survival.
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Making Inroads in Infrastructure
Kanthi Koeniger, a freelance journalist in Indonesia, points to the outline of a distant mountain as we enter the city. We are lucky, she tells our group. That mountain is only visible once every six months; the rest of the time, it is obscured by the smog that coats Jakarta’s skyline. Much attention is paid to the devastating environmental impact of deforestation in Indonesia, the third largest greenhouse-gas emitter in the world. But few focus upon another major pollutant: vehicles. About 500 cars are registered in Jakarta each day, Koeniger says; others have reported that as many as 7,000 new motorcycles are registered every week in this commuter city, in part because of tax credits for the more efficient vehicles. Traffic jams are a part of life in Jakarta. Just to get to another part of the city, we have to plan to leave at...
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