Spot news and enterprise on the Ukraine war, North Korea, and global stories of the day.

Enterprise, breaking news, and opinion from South Asia and Africa for outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic, Artforum, Foreign Policy, and Slate. Interviewed death squad leaders, presidents and, on his deathbed, Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Spot news from suicide bombings and national elections. Reported from simmering Sudanese border towns, sinking Bangladeshi islands, Ugandan refugee camps, and an Egyptian picket line. Features ranged from an $180 million… Show more Enterprise, breaking news, and opinion from South Asia and Africa for outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic, Artforum, Foreign Policy, and Slate. Interviewed death squad leaders, presidents and, on his deathbed, Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Spot news from suicide bombings and national elections. Reported from simmering Sudanese border towns, sinking Bangladeshi islands, Ugandan refugee camps, and an Egyptian picket line. Features ranged from an $180 million Darfur Ponzi scheme to the collapse of public health in Malawi, from the world’s biggest-ever vaccination drive to a profile of Mumbai’s celebrity police assassins. Show less

Writer/Producer for digital nonprofit covering emerging global issues for partners including BBC, the Guardian, PRI, Deutsche Welle, Tempo (Indonesia), and Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil). • Co-managed and wrote exclusive investigative series revealing microplastic contamination in the world’s tap water and leading bottled water brands, sparking new research by the World Health Organization, scientists, and regulators. • Original polling and data analysis with staff data scientist. Field… Show more Writer/Producer for digital nonprofit covering emerging global issues for partners including BBC, the Guardian, PRI, Deutsche Welle, Tempo (Indonesia), and Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil). • Co-managed and wrote exclusive investigative series revealing microplastic contamination in the world’s tap water and leading bottled water brands, sparking new research by the World Health Organization, scientists, and regulators. • Original polling and data analysis with staff data scientist. Field reporting and production from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Hired and managed fixers, shooters, and translators. • Still photography and mobile video. Wrote and edited scripts for multimedia, radio, and broadcast, and text stories for leading digital and print outlets on five continents. • Coordinated with social media team and publishing partner editorial. • Finalist: Investigative Reporting, Association of British Science Writers; Honorable Mention: Explanatory Reporting, Society of Environmental Journalists. Show less

Writer and blogger covering culture, the environment, and the ancient world for the news site of the National Geographic Society. Enterprise and spot news from South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Regular contributor to the global opinion section from South Asia and Africa.

"The Black Nile," a nonfiction account of my journey down the river Nile through Uganda, Sudan and Egypt, was published in hardcover by Viking Penguin in 2010 and in paperback, with a new Afterword, in 2011. In July 2011, as South Sudan formally seceded from Sudan after decades of war and atrocity, Penguin published a separate electronic edition of the new Afterword as "Revolution on the Nile," my account of the south's peaceful freedom referendum -- and its bloody aftermath.

Covered at close range the Sept. 11 attacks and recovery, and reported on topics including Bill Clinton’s role in the gentrification of Harlem, a financial fraud led by a former operative of CIA director William Casey, the life of mafia boss John Gotti, and the twilight of New York numbers king Ramon “Spanish Raymond” Marquez.

Soup to nuts reporting on politics, crime, and culture in Giuliani-era New York. Enterprise, spot news, and investigations. National and foreign assignments.