Fellows & Editors
Jenny Asarnow
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2011
- Affiliation:
- Freelance journalist
- Country:
- Haiti
- Year:
- 2011
Jenny Asarnow is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. Until early 2011, she produced talk shows and trained youth at KUOW Public Radio and created programs for freeform community station Hollow Earth Radio. In 2008, Asarnow was recognized as one of public radio's 'brightest makers' by Maker's Quest 2.0 (MQ2), an initiative of the Association of Independents in Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As part of MQ2’s pilot season, she created The Corner: 23rd and Union, a hyper-local interactive documentary and art installation about race and class on a Seattle street corner. Asarnow earned a BA in History from Brown University.
Follow a live feed of her tweets, articles, and reports from Haiti.
Post-IRP Stories
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March 18, 2011 | International Reporting Project
Welcome, Spring Fellows!
Stories
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Hard Lessons for American Midwife Volunteer in Haiti
Haiti is in desperate need of skilled medical workers, a need exacerbated by last year's earthquake. Many Americans have volunteered to help, but in a place where basic needs go unmet and...
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Real Deal: A Financial Father to Haiti’s Needy
When an aging man decides to provide for two needy children, becoming a "financial father" proves more complicated than he thought. Jenny Asarnow reports on one Canadian man's decision to provide financial...
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Reporting on Haiti After the Earthquake
Dr. Paul Farmer began Partners in Health in Haiti more than three decades ago with the mission of improving infrastructure to alleviate poverty and providing health care in cooperation with the government....
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Stranded at the Hospital in Haiti
In Haiti, where most people live on less than $2 a day, free obstetric care is a much-needed service. It's provided through a partnership between Haiti's government, Canada and the World Health Organization....
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My Luxury Stay in Haiti’s Celebrity Hospital
I came to Haiti to find out why women and babies here are 50 times more likely to die during childbirth than Americans, and to find out how nurse-midwives are working to save...
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Birth in a Jeep: A Day in the Life of a Midwife in Haiti
It was my first full day in Hinche, a small city in Haiti's rural Central Plateau, and I was packed into a bright pink jeep with four midwives "” three Haitian and one...
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No Voting Day for Canaan 2 in Haiti
Sunday, March 20, 2011 was voting day in Haiti. United Nations police stood watch with automatic rifles while crowds in Port-au-Prince turned out to cast their ballots. They're choosing between former first lady Mirlande...
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Haitian Presidential Elections Truly a Success?
"They don't respect us. . . We have to get up out of our beds very early to come and vote, and were not able to vote. We haven't even cooked for the kids...
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