Fellows & Editors
Ben Arnoldy
- Trip:
- Kazakhstan 2013
- Affiliation:
- Christian Science Monitor
- Country:
- Kazakhstan
- Year:
- 2013
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Ben Arnoldy is the Deputy International Editor at The Christian Science Monitor, which is based in Boston. He recently spent several years based in New Delhi covering India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for the Monitor. He has held a wide variety of other posts during his 13 years at the Monitor: some international editing, some reporting from around the American West, and some coding in the early days of csmonitor.com. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he became perhaps the first online journalist to embed with the military. His journalism work has been recognized by the Online News Association, the Education Writers Association, and the Sidney Hillman Foundation. He has taught online journalism at the 9.9 School of Convergence in New Delhi. For the past half dozen years or so, he has produced a weekly sudoku for the Monitor. He graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in English and a minor in Computer Science.
Stories
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The Cost of Being the World’s No. 1 Uranium Producer
If you make a toxic mess under one of the most isolated parts of the planet, does it matter if you don't clean it up? Does it make a difference if...
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Secrets of Semipalatinsk: How Nuclear Theft Was Averted in Central Asia
Anastacia Kyseleva saw her first atomic mushroom cloud from the fields near her village. Residents of Kanonerka, located near the Russian border in eastern Kazakhstan, had only heard the mysterious explosions from...
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Astana: A City Built for Giants
{image-1} Astana simply means “capital.” In 1997, the recently-independent country of Kazakhstan moved its government here. Flush with new oil wealth, Kazakhstan has built an EPCOT city of sorts on the...
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Kazakhstan’s Unnoticed Journey from Soviet Nuclear Danger
Today I went to see a working Soviet nuclear reactor. The two-story high white metal box had all the trappings of a Rube Goldberg contraption: red coils jutted from the...
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