Fellows & Editors
Melody Schreiber
- Trip:
- TBD
- Affiliation:
- International Reporting Project (IRP)
- Year:
- 2000
- Find me on:
- Email:
- [email protected]
Melody Schreiber is a program manager and the communications director at the International Reporting Project. Before joining IRP, she was an assistant editor at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has also worked as a freelance editor for various authors and research institutions.
Her articles, essays and reviews have been published by The Washington Post, the Guardian, The Atlantic, USA Today, Washingtonian, Delaware State News, The Toast, Slate, Grist and other publications. She has also appeared on CNN and Feature Story News.
Melody has a bachelor's degree in English and linguistics from Georgetown University and a master of the arts in nonfiction writing from the Johns Hopkins University.
Stories
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Announcing IRP’s 2015 Fellows
The International Reporting Project (IRP) has selected 32 journalists to report on pressing issues around religion, nuclear security, and global health and development. Because applications for IRP's 2015 fellowships were accepted on a...
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What Nepal’s Earthquake Felt Like From a Hotel in Kathmandu
At 11:58 a.m., I glanced at the clock in the lobby of the Yak & Yeti Hotel in the Durbar Marg neighborhood of the Nepalese capital. I walked toward the elevator, and...
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Apply Now for Reporting Fellowships
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is now accepting applications for reporting fellowships on religion and health/development. These fellowships are intended to provide in-depth coverage of important, under-covered international...
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Meet the IRP Fellows to Nepal
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce the eleven international journalists who will report from Nepal from April 25 to May 7, 2015. {image-1} IRP's Nepal fellows will focus on health...
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Event: Sarah Wildman, Author of “Paper Love,” to Speak on February 5
Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind, will discuss her critically-acclaimed book at an event on Thursday, February 5. {image-1} Wildman, a former IRP...
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Apply for Reporting Trip to Nepal by February 16!
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce a group reporting trip to Nepal from April 25 to May 7, 2015. Although Nepal is known as the home to Earth's tallest peak, Mt....
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Indian Baby Showers Add Iron-Rich Nutritional Gift
{image-1} Indian women gather for godh bharai, a baby shower. Photo: Leon Kaye / International Reporting Project Three young women here hold court in the middle of the room, bedecked in their...
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Visit to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
[View the story "At the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives" on Storify]
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Technology in Agriculture
[View the story "Technology in Agriculture" on Storify]
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The Economics of Agriculture in Tanzania
[View the story "The Economics of Agriculture in Tanzania" on Storify]
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Down by the Bay in Dar es Salaam
I’m so excited to be in Tanzania with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Yesterday, I had a few moments to myself. I walked through an overpriced market, but I...
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New Media Reporting Tools: What to Use and How to Use Them
[View the story "New Media Reporting Tools" on Storify]
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In India, Daughters-in-Law Encouraged to Speak Up
Shenaz Hamid Khan lives in a small one-bedroom apartment--about 300 square feet--in Govandi, an overcrowded government resettlement slum on the outskirts of Mumbai, with 15 other people from her husband's family. Her household...
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The Zambian Ministry of Health
[View the story "The Ministry of Health" on Storify]
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Zambian Chief Supports Sanitation
[View the story "Zambian Chief Supports Sanitation" on Storify]
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Macha Research Institute
[View the story "Macha Research Institute" on Storify]
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The State of Journalism in Zambia
[View the story "The State of Journalism in Zambia" on Storify]
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The Role of Technology in Health
[View the story "The Role of Technology in Health" on Storify]
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Planet Books, a Zambian Literary Destination
When I was preparing for this trip to Zambia, I was disappointed by the limited literary selection that I found online. Where was the Zambian Achebe or Adichie? Lusaka&rsquo...;
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Photos: Safe Love in Zambia
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Photos: N’gombe Integrated Clinic
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Photos: N’gombe Compound
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Love Games and Safe Love Clubs
[View the story "Safe Love Club" on Storify]
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TB in Zambia: Challenges, Solutions, and the Way Forward
[View the story "TB in Zambia: Challenges, Solutions, and the Way Forward" on Storify]
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Health Services in Zambia: Challenges, Solutions, and the Way Forward
[View the story "Health Services in Zambia: Challenges, Solutions, and the Way Forward" on Storify]
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Safe Love Club
[View the story "Safe Love Club" on Storify]
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Health and HIV/AIDS in Zambia
[View the story "Health and HIV/AIDS in Zambia" on Storify]
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Reporting on Global Health in New Media
[View the story "Reporting on Global Health in New Media" on Storify]
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Reporting on Global Health: The 2013 IRP New Media Fellows
The 2013 IRP New Media Fellows use innovative tools to report on pressing issues of health, development, and innovation in the developing world over the course of the year. Bidisha, journalist and presenter...
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Health Access in Mumbai’s Resettlement Communities
{image-1} {image-2} {image-3} {image-4} {image-5} {image-6} {image-7} 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...
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Biometric Technology Helps TB Patients in Bhiwandi, Mumbai
{image-1} {image-2} {image-3} {image-4} {image-5} {image-6} 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...
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Mumbai’s M Ward in Photos
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Marking 15 Years, IRP Focuses on New Media, International Journalists
Joanne Manaster has been associated with many professions—model, scientist, professor, mother—but never, she says, has she thought of herself as a journalist. Yet Manaster, a self-proclaimed “accidental...
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Building a Healthy Digital Archive
We’ve all been there. You accidentally delete an important work project and unthinkingly empty your trash. Your PC succumbs to a virus. Your laptop gets run over by a car....
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Hungry for Change
The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow is the story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger. It highlights the challenges, and necessity, of...
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Staying Healthy in Africa’s Largest Slum
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is traveling in Kenya with a group of 11 influential bloggers from around the world, examining reproductive health issues in that East African country. {image-1} On the trip,...
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Stories From Saudi Arabia
The International Reporting Project (IRP) selected 12 senior editors and producers from across the United States to travel to Saudi Arabia in May 2012. The trip participants learned about Saudi Arabia and issues affecting...
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President Kagame: Our Ambition Is to Receive No Foreign Aid
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Rwanda from November 6-19, 2011, to learn more about this tiny but complex Central African country. The Gatekeepers concluded...
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President Kagame: Another Genocide in Rwanda Is Unlikely
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Rwanda from November 6-19, 2011, to learn more about this tiny but complex Central African country. The Gatekeepers concluded...
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President Kagame: “The Catholic Church Has Not Done Enough” After the Genocide
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Rwanda from November 6-19, 2011, to learn more about this tiny but complex Central African country. The Gatekeepers concluded...
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President Kagame: “There Is No Other Impediment to Media Development” in Rwanda
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Rwanda from November 6-19, 2011, to learn more about this important country. The Gatekeepers concluded their trip by meeting...
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President Kagame: “I Will Not Be President in 2017”
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Rwanda from November 6-19, 2011, to learn more about this important country. The Gatekeepers concluded their trip by meeting...
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President Kagame on Divisionism and Genocide Ideology Laws
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Rwanda from November 6-19, 2011, to learn more about this important country. The Gatekeepers concluded their trip by meeting...
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Reports From Rwanda: The 2011 IRP Gatekeeper Editors Trip
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 12 senior editors and producers from across the United States traveled to Rwanda in an intensive program to learn about issues affecting Rwanda and other countries in...
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Backpack Journalism: Crossing the Boundaries of Media
Ann S. Kim and Jill Braden Balderas both reported on global health on IRP Fellowships in spring 2011--Ann on infant circumcision in Botswana and Jill on malaria in Uganda. In this video,...
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Insight Into Indonesia: The 2011 IRP Gatekeeper Editor Trip
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 11 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Indonesia from May 6-20, 2011, to learn more about this important country in Asia. The world's fourth largest country...
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Traditional Dayak Dance
In May 2011, eleven senior news editors and producers traveled to Indonesia on an intensive fact-finding trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In one of the Dayak villages, we were met with...
Blog Posts RSS
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February 22, 2013 | by Schreiber, Melody
Rural Health in India
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March 27, 2012 | by Schreiber, Melody
Meet the Spring Fellows: Juhie Bhatia
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March 21, 2012 | by Schreiber, Melody
Nieman Reports Highlights IRP’s Global Health Coverage
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July 26, 2011 | by Schreiber, Melody
Making Inroads in Infrastructure
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