A Day At The World [Video]

Ever wonder what it’s like to produce The World’s weekday broadcast? Video journalist and freelance producer Marcus Wraight produced this video depicting a day at The World.

Iowa: Globalization & Immigration

Every four years, politicians, pundits, and reporters descend on Iowa to hear how voters are feeling, and what their mood might say about the selection of the next president of the United States. Iowa is prospering, relative to much of the country: urban areas are thriving and corn is fetching record prices. But smaller industrial towns are struggling. The World’s Jason Margolis spent time in three rural Iowa communities to see how they are dealing with the shifting economic challenges of globalization and changing immigration patterns.

2011: The World in Protests

[Interactive Graphic] The World’s coverage of the protests, demonstrations and revolutions, from the ‘Arab Spring’ to the ‘Occupy’ protests, as they happened.

20 Years After the Soviet Collapse

Twenty years ago, residents of Moscow awoke to the sound of tanks in the streets. There was a coup in the USSR.

Lisa Mullins Podcast: Egypt

The World’s anchor Lisa Mullins notes in this special podcast that even for those of us who watch the news unfold minute by minute, it’s rare to know that at that moment, our world is being transformed. She posses a couple of questions about the role of religion in the protests — and the potential for Islam and democracy to co-exist in Egypt.

The Egypt protests on The World

Simon Winchester’s Atlantic World

British author and journalist Simon Winchester is currently researching a new book, which he calls a “biography of the Atlantic Ocean.” And as his research takes him to weird and wonderful parts of the globe, he’s been checking in with us. From the Purple Islands off the coast city of Essaouira in Morocco, to the Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, you can revisit Simon’s Atlantic ports of call right here.

Old Forests vs. New: Do Critters Care?

Correspondent Julia Kumari Drapkin reports from Panama on the debate over the conservation importance of tropical forest that are growing back after being cut. View the audio slideshow