Joanna Kakissis - Greece - NPR

<p>Ode to a Grecian journ(alist). Family looms large in this episode with Joanna Kakissis (<a href='https://twitter.com/joannakakissis'>@joannakakissis</a>), a correspondent in Athens for National Public Radio, whose Greek parents instilled in her the importance of their culture from a young age. She made a mark early in her career as part of a Pulitzer finalist newspaper reporting team before returning to her roots in Greece where she has reported for more than a decade.</p> <p>Countries featured: Turkey, USA, Greece</p> <p>Publications featured: The News & Observer, Boston Globe, Time magazine, The New York Times, NPR</p> <p>Joanna discusses growing up as the only Greeks in small town North Dakota (4:43), her trajectory from college to NPR (16:12), her newspaper coverage of a hurricane in North Carolina that taught her not to exoticize her subjects (23:00), why she took a risk to cover the Athens Olympics for the Boston Globe and became a freelance foreign correspondent (28:46), her broader European coverage (35:00), a story that got away about a Syrian doctor in Germany who killed the piece for fear for his family (38:58), her series for NPR on Uighurs in Turkey (44:28) and the lightning round (54:45).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Joanna talks about covering the European migrant crisis - <a href='https://n.pr/3kAnokS'>https://n.pr/3kAnokS</a></p> <p>Part 1 of Joanna’s Uighur in Turkey series - <a href='https://n.pr/32GhJ6T'>https://n.pr/32GhJ6T</a></p> <p>Part 2 - <a href='https://n.pr/3kw8X1e'>https://n.pr/3kw8X1e</a></p> <p>Part 3 - <a href='https://n.pr/3eYpDxg'>https://n.pr/3eYpDxg</a></p> <p>NPR’s Radiolab - <a href='https://bit.ly/36BmsaX'>https://bit.ly/36BmsaX</a></p> <p>NPR’s Rough Translation podcast - <a href='https://n.pr/2ZXvzRo'>https://n.pr/2ZXvzRo</a></p> <p>NYT’s The Jungle Prince of Delhi - <a href='https://nyti.ms/39hXIUR'>https://nyti.ms/39hXIUR</a></p> <p>NYT Cooking mapo tofu recipe - <a href='https://nyti.ms/2IAUIu