Fellows & Editors
Delphine Schrank
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2008
- Affiliation:
- Freelance Writer
- Country:
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Year:
- 2008
- Email:
- [email protected]
Delphine Schrank is a freelance writer based in Washington D.C. She worked at The Washington Post from 2005 to 2008, where she was a general assignment reporter. Previously, she was a co-founder and contributing editor for www.janera.com. Earlier she worked as a sub-editor and correspondent for TIME magazine in both the Paris bureau and the London newsroom. Schrank has extensive experience in theater and film, working in New York, Brussels, and Oxford on various productions as a director. She has a B.A. and an MA. Degree in Modern History from Oxford University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
Stories
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Tin Fever
In the first shafts of light to pierce the jungle canopy, the tin porters danced. They swayed and sashayed to the languorous rhythms coming from a radio that someone, in the night,...
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Ecocide in the Congo
War and environmental degradation share a long history. The Romans blighted the fields of Carthage with salt back in 146 BC. The flattened villages of Flanders...Agent Orange stripping the jungles of Vietnam.....
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68 Million Congolese Can’t Be Wrong
Photo by: Delphine Schrank Democratic Republic of Congo -- Trudging through the muddy, crammed alleyways of Katindo military base in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, it's hard to imagine why...
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“As Go the Hippos” IRP Fellow’s story on Congo in the Atlantic Magazine
Photo by: Delphine Schrank On the blue-gray waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on...
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Congo Crisis Escalates
Delphine Schrank is a freelance writer who prior to her 2008 IRP Fellowship was a reporter for the Washington Post Delphine Schrank is a freelance journalist who just returned from five weeks reporting...
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A Makeshift Existence
Delphine Schrank Anita Kakule and son seek refuge in Congo Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Even before fighting flared, Anita Kakule and her smallest son lived on a tattered straw mat...
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