Jeb Sharp

‘Somewhere Between’: Adopted from China, Coming of Age in US

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ November 15, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

About 80,000 girls have been adopted from China into American families in recent decades. A new documentary, “Somewhere Between,” follows four of those girls as teenagers coming to terms with who they are and where they come from. The World’s Jeb Sharp caught up with the filmmaker and three of her subjects at a recent screening in Boston.

Show Producer’s Blog: Kony 2012

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ March 9, 2012 ⋅ 10 comments

I have written for years about heartbreaking issues of war and atrocity and the shortfall between international rhetoric and action. I’ve often struggled with the apparent mismatch between the horror of what’s going on and people’s blithe ignorance of it. But knowledge isn’t everything [...]

Show Producer’s Blog: Anthony Shadid

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ February 17, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Anthony Shadid was a great friend to our show, often going out of his way to make time for an interview with Lisa or Marco. Just last week he apologetically turned us down because he was about to hit the road on what turned out to be his last reporting trip. He said he’d be back in a week [...]

Show Producer’s Blog: Newsroom Hubbub

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ January 23, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Susan Cain’s New York Times op-ed “The Rise of the New Groupthink” makes me think a lot about the way we work here at The World. We have an open plan newsroom [...]

Show Producer’s Blog: Debating Foreign Policy

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ January 20, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Last week I blogged about Syria and the R2P or the doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” What should the international community do in the case of a government like Syria’s, which is killing its own citizens? [...]

Show Producer’s Blog: R2P

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ January 13, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Before I was a show producer I was a reporter. My first overseas assignment was Kosovo in 1999. Since that experience, much of my reporting has revolved around war and its awfulness, and questions about humanitarian intervention, civilian protection, and justice for war crimes [...]

Show Producer’s Blog: Remembering Haiti

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ January 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

A year ago this week I was in Haiti doing stories about how things stood on the anniversary of the big earthquake there. As we approach the second anniversary of that terrible day (January 12, 2010) I find myself thinking a lot about the people I met on that trip, including Rochefort Saint-Louis, a public health official tasked with collecting the bodies of cholera victims. [...]

Show Producer’s Blog: Hidden Heroes

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ January 4, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the things I’d like to do on this show producer’s blog is highlight the hidden heroes in the newsroom. The conventions of public radio mean that hosts in the studio and reporters in the field are well-recognized [...]

Show Producer’s Blog

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ January 3, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

For a while now I’ve been meaning to start a “show producer’s blog” — a place to jot down thoughts about the news, the program, the production day, the issues that come up in the course of doing what we do, and best of all, I hope, a place to engage with all of you about the stories we do. So here goes [...]

The Specter of Syrian Civil War

By Jeb Sharp ⋅ June 8, 2011 ⋅ One comment

As the violence escalates in Syria, there’s fear of sectarian civil war.