Fellows & Editors
Krista Mahr
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2011
- Affiliation:
- TIME Asia
- Country:
- South Sudan
- Year:
- 2011
Krista Mahr is a Hong Kong-based journalist who has reported in print and video for TIME since 2007, covering natural disasters, politics, immigration, the environment, energy and agriculture in Japan, Australia, Burma, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, and Cambodia. Most recently, she was in Japan reporting on the March 11 earthquake and nuclear crisis.
Originally from Los Angeles, Mahr attended the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she obtained a B.A. in Literature. Before moving to Asia, she lived in Reykjavik, Iceland, where she was the editor in chief of Iceland Review magazine and covered Arctic issues for the Associated Press, BBC World Radio, and other news outlets.
Follow a live feed of her tweets, articles, and reports from South Sudan.
Stories
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The Making of a Country: South Sudan After Independence
Krista Mahr traveled to South Sudan in the wake of its independence to report on how the country was creating itself. "The country is very underdeveloped and hasn't gotten a lot...
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South Sudan’s Returning Exiles: Can the Young Country Accommodate Them?
Ashraf Shazly / AFP / Getty Images South Sudanese in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, wait to be transported to their recently independent nation on October 28, 2011. It was a blazing Saturday in October, and the crowd...
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Birth Pains of a Nation: South Sudan’s Problematic Boom
A group celebrates South Sudan's independence in the capital, Juba, on July 8, 2011Giorgos Moutafis / EPAWhen the first limousine in South Sudan arrived earlier this year, it was loaded onto a truck and...
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In Crumbling Sudan: Dodging Bombers with the Rebels of Blue Nile
Sudanese rebel leader Malik Agar at his rebel hideout near the Kurmuk region of the Blue Nile state on October 10, 2011.Hannah Macneish / AFP / Getty ImagesThe sound of a plane is hard to...
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The Great, Slow Road of Juba: South Sudan’s Crucial Artery
If you've never thought much about pavement, take a drive from Juba to Nimule. Parts of South Sudan's busiest road have been paved, but the unfinished parts are still teeth-rattling stretches of...
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33 Days in Juba: South Sudan After Independence
Krista Mahr is reporting from South Sudan on a fellowship with the International Reporting Project (IRP). She is updating her Tumblr account throughout her travels.
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