Fellows & Editors
Francine Uenuma
- Trip:
- Peru 2009
- Affiliation:
- The Washington Post (Digital)
- Country:
- Peru
- Year:
- 2009
Francine Izumi Uenuma is currently the senior news video editor with The Washington Post Digital, working to ensure daily multimedia coverage on the Post’s web site. In addition to shooting and editing video, she liaises with various sections of the paper to present the best options for video, audio and podcasts to enhance the Post’s online coverage. She works with foreign correspondents to equip them and develop their multimedia skills, helping to garner video from Afghanistan to South Africa. Uenuma also hosts the World Briefing Podcast, a weekly discussion with those correspondents about what they are reporting and their experiences on the ground. Her career in journalism began with an interest in international news. She attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, completing a course of study on issues from the Cold War to the contemporary history of the Korean Peninsula.
Stories
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Keiko Fujimori Discusses Her Father’s Legacy
In 2009, IRP Gatekeeper Editors went to Peru to explore the major issues facing the South American country and to meet the country's top leaders and key opinion-makers. In this video, the Gatekeepers...
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Keiko Fujimori on Corruption
Keiko Fujimori, the 35-year-old daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, is a popular member of the Peruvian parliament and the head of a party called Fuerza 2011. She has continued her father's political...
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Doctors in Peru battle increasingly drug-resistant TB
MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What's worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends...
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MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru
Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What's worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the dreaded disease.
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In Amazonian gold rush, enforcement is elusive
The price of gold has drawn miners to Madre de Dios, a department of southeastern Peru. But deforestation and use of mercury in the mining have created and environmental hazard for the...
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For potato farmers in Peru, climate change is local
As leaders gather this week in Copenhagen to debate solutions for climate change, farmers and scientists in Peru are working on ways to adapt to changes in the weather that are affecting...
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