Jeb Sharp

Jeb Sharp is an international reporter and journalist, who has been working in international journalism for over 10 years. Her work began while in graduate school at Berkeley, and it was at that time that she was introduced to radio as a medium for journalistic storytelling. As she says, while “at the graduate school... (I) was really thinking print. I took a radio course in my very last semester just for fun, and got completely hooked. It wasn’t falling in love with the medium so much as realizing I could be part of a medium that I’d always loved."

In recent years, her work has been focused in public radio, while working for PRI's The World, a co-production of PRI, the BBC World Service and WGBH Radio Boston (since 1998).

She has reported from the Middle East, Africa and Europe while on assignment. She covers international security issues, as well as foreign policy and human rights. Her radio stories have been honored by the Overseas Press Club and she has received a Sigma Delta Chi award for feature reporting from the Society for Professional Journalists.

Some of her more well known series and reports include:

• The Darfur Conflict
• Rape & The Congo
• The Rwanda Series
• How Wars End
• The United States and Iran

Jeb edits and maintains a blog, detailing her work and providing a behinds the scenes look as she pursues her investigative work. She also produces a weekly podcast called "How We Got Here" that looks at history behind contemporary news stories

Jeb was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2006. Since 1938 more than 1,300 journalists from the U.S. and 88 other countries been awarded Nieman fellowships. Nieman Fellowships are awarded to "print, broadcast and online reporters, editors, photographers, producers, editorial writers and cartoonists with at least five years of full-time, professional experience in the news media."

Jeb attended the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and began her career at KCAW-FM in Sitka, Alaska. She has also worked at WBUR, a public radio station, in Boston.

External links

• The World
• Public Radio International

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