Changes in climate demand change in action
Minneapolis: Climate change is not fake news. U.S. President Donald Trump may have skipped the G-7 meeting in France over climate change, but cannot avoid the reality of destruction he is staring into as Hurricane Dorian descends on the Caribbean and country. This...
Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill (final)
Was Cargill transparent when dealing with me as a journalist about the land-acquisition political storm the company is involved in Colombia? Cargill was the first corporate visit undertaken by the WPI 2013 fellows. / Photo: Spas Spasov. I was not aware...
Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill (II)
The following blog post is a translation of the article that was published in El Espectador on September 23 2013. Thanks to Carson Scott for his help in editing my translation. Interview with Cargill’s president “The land was just one piece of the investment”...
Colombianismos – Those forbidden words
“That’s the way it is”: a phrase that should be deleted from our vocabulary. Soybean crops near Tracy, MN. The grean ocean. The following conversation took place in the morning of Aug. 26/2013, inside the scoopmobile, between...Postkard from Amerika: FRANKENFOOD ON THE PRAIRIE
As we left the Twin Cities and headed southwest towards the small town of Tracy – the ‘big city’ in the storied “Little House on the Prairie” TV series – the landscape gradually changed from thick pine trees to rolling grasslands. Corn and soybean crops swayed...
We are happy to announce the selection of the 2019 World Press Institute (WPI) fellows! Read more about the 2019 WPI Fellows and view their photos here: https://t.co/PEepuQI8Lu
Happy Holidays from WPI! If you are a foreign journalist looking to immerse yourself in the governance, politics, business, media, journalistic ethics and culture of the US, we are now accepting applications for our 2019 fellowship program: https://t.co/UuT18UAzyw.