Fellows & Editors
Tom Paulson
- Trip:
- Rwanda 2011
- Affiliation:
- Humanosphere.org
- Country:
- Rwanda
- Year:
- 2011
Tom Paulson is the host of Humanosphere.org, an online news site at KPLU, a Seattle public radio station affiliated with National Public Radio. As a host, blogger and reporter on topics of global health and development, he selects stories to post on the site and reports on the topics. During his career he has covered many aspects of health and science, from shadowing investigators from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tracking the source of a major E. coli 0157 outbreak to reporting on historic AIDS vaccine trials in Thailand. From 1987 to 2009, he worked as a science and medical reporter and editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Previously he worked in Idaho at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and at The Wenatchee World in Washington. He holds an M.A. in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s of Science from Pacific Lutheran University.
Stories
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Rwandans Fight Poverty While Others Fight Over the Numbers
Many miles south of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ in Kigali is the site of one of the worst massacres of the 1994 Rwandan genocide where the majority Hutu ethnic group sought to eliminate...
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Rwanda Dispatches: A Land Known for Genocide, Gorillas and Promise
Traveling with a dozen or so other journalists on a fact-finding visit to Africa's "success story" "“ Rwanda "“ we took time out to go visit the famous mountain gorillas. One young silverback sort...
Blog Posts RSS
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November 21, 2011 | by Paulson, Tom
10 Reasons Why Rwanda Can’t Be Described in a Sound-Bite
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November 18, 2011 | by Paulson, Tom
Scenes From Rwanda
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November 17, 2011 | by Paulson, Tom
A Chat With Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame
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November 16, 2011 | by Paulson, Tom
Walking the Media Tightrope in Rwanda
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November 15, 2011 | by Paulson, Tom
Mountain Gorillas With Journalists in the Midst
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