Fellows & Editors
Christopher Werth
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2012
- Affiliation:
- Freelance journalist
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2012
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Christopher Werth is a London-based freelance journalist. He reports regularly for American Public Media’s “Marketplace” from the studios of the BBC World Service, and has traveled across Europe covering the European debt crisis. He has been a frequent contributor to Newsweek, and got his start in public radio at WNYC with NPR’s “On The Media.” Werth currently serves as the president of the Association of American Correspondents in London. In 2010 he was awarded the Henry Demarest Lloyd Fund from the Center for Investigative Reporting to cover allegations of forced evictions in South Africa in the lead up to the Soccer World Cup. He received a Master’s degree in International Affairs from The New School in New York City.
Stories
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India’s Healthcare Dilemma
Christopher Werth reports from New Delhi on the future of health care in India: Should it be mostly public or private? Christopher Werth, a freelance journalist, reported on health in India as...
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India Battles Malnutrition With Local Product
Inside a small shack in Mumbai’s largest slum, Dr. Evelet Sequeira struggles to coax a 3-year-old girl onto a baby scale. Sequeira is with a local aid organization called SNEHA...
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Big Retailers Face Resistance in India
{image-1} India is bracing for nationwide strikes on Thursday. Many stores will close to protest the Indian government’s decision to open the country to big Western retailers like Wal-Mart. Indian...
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India’s ‘Demographic Dividend’ Only Good If There’s Growth
Kai Ryssdal: Tomorrow in New Delhi, Indian economists will get their latest growth figures to chew on. Quarterly GDP is expected to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 5.3 percent. Economists -- not...
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Chinese Exports Help Boost Economy Over India
India has lost its ranking as the country with the most upbeat consumers. That's according to the global information company Nielsen, which says Indonesia now holds the top spot on...
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Indian Slum Becomes Hot Property
Every year, 65 million more people--basically, the population of France--cram into the world's cities. Most of that growth is in developing countries, where people are more than willing to trade life in...
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To Fight HIV, Indian Health Workers Say Homosexuality Must Be Legal
In India in 2009, homosexuality was decriminalized in a court decision. Opponents of that ruling have petitioned India's Supreme Court to reverse it. Indian gay rights organizations are fighting to maintain the...
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India’s Oil Purchases From Iran Irk U.S.
Next week the U.S. and five other world powers are scheduled to meet with Iranian officials about Iran's nuclear program. The U.S. is pushing for the most comprehensive economic...
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BRICS Nations Meet, Hope to Start Own Bank
Stacey Vanek Smith: The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gathered in New Delhi today for a summit for the so-called BRICS group of emerging economies. At the top...
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