Producer

Joyce Hackel is a producer and occasional editor at The World. She enjoys tracking down voices that offer a deeper understanding of the day’s news.

Hackel started out in print journalism, writing deadline copy from Capitol Hill for States News Service. In the late 80s, she moved to El Salvador, where she lived for two years and reported on the region’s conflicts for The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Monitor Radio. (She also met a British guy she’d eventually marry, but that’s another story…)

Joyce became a staff correspondent for Monitor Radio in the early 90s, and was sent to Africa for four years. Based in Nairobi, she filed from war zones in Somalia , Rwanda , and Burundi , and reported on topics ranging from fighting AIDS in Uganda, to corruption in Nigeria and Nelson Mandela’s landmark election in South Africa .

Hackel won several awards for her stories from Africa , including first place from American Women in Radio and TV for a profile of a Rwandan genocide survivor. In 1996, she received a University of Michigan Journalism Fellowship and headed back to the States.

Joyce has worked as a Senior Editor at Living on Earth, and has edited WBUR’s Morning Edition. She now lives in Cambridge with Robin Lubbock (New Media Manager – WBUR), and her two sons. Some day, after the Legos are all packed away, she vows she’ll get back on the road.