The Bureau for International Reporting (BIR)

08/28/2024

Looking for some uplifting environmental news content? Check out our profile of the lovely and determined Montana youth suing their state for climate crisis action. Top of the Preserving Democracy page now... and our Thailand story still living at the bottom, if you missed it (how nice and how lucky for us to have reported both).

Pursuing a more perfect union

08/07/2024

Thailand's democratically elected Move Forward Party was disbanded by the courts today, its 11 leaders banned from politics. Others are facing actual jail time. Our PBS story from our "embed" with them this spring, as charges were filed against them for their proposal to amend the country's laws on insulting the monarchy.

In a period of democratic decline in Southeast Asia, Thailand is sometimes held up as an outlier; compared to a raging civil war following a military coup in next door Myanmar, the arrest and banning of opposition politicians in autocratic Cambodia, and the remaining communist governments of Laos an...

11/21/2023

This is "Betty White." She is 20 years old and proud of her crooked horns. She'd be happy if you watched the documentary about the good humans who are preserving her family and the land on their Flathead reservation. "Our America: Rebirth of the Range" available now: on live streaming this weekend (info below), and also online (link in comments). On-demand coming up in December.
The ABC News Live streaming channel will have four airings this coming weekend:
Saturday, Nov 25th, midnight, 7 am, 11 pm
Sunday, November 26, 6 pm.
All times are EST, subtract 3 hours for PST, etc. Full schedule available here: https://abc.com/schedule
You can view the ABC News Live streaming channel via Hulu, Roku, Fire, Apple, and Google TV

04/27/2023

New York's hottest club is NYU GlobalBeat! We've got everything (from the field in Morocco): cool female DJs "decolonizing the dance floor"; Christian Migrants worshipping in underground house churches; ultra soccer fans creating a political identity for themselves; desert nomads losing their traditional way of life. Come join us and our students, May 3rd 6pm. Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reporting-on-culture-and-communities-in-morocco-tickets-621091359977?fbclid=IwAR1rHP44dkHXUxWRGh2GWop6fwbZ0fAVF1iazQhz-rYzBcqUYL29JlGBYPI

01/09/2023

These impressive beasts are in our future, as we're thrilled to have received a grant from the National Press Foundation to cover the transition of the (formerly-National) Bison Range park in Montana to local tribal management over this coming year: https://nationalpress.org/award-story/npf-npcji-award-73920-to-five-grantees-for-environmental-justice-journalism/

12/22/2022

Behind the scenes of our newest piece, on an impressive Bosnian start up offering talented young people a chance to stay and have a good life in their own country. Many thanks to ZenDev and Grupa 9 Here is the film.: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8403/bosnias-brain-drain

Remember this crew? 😍

The PBS team flew all the way from New York to capture the story of Bosnia and Herzegovina and our people.

Thank you for choosing Senad Santic and ZenDev as positive contributors to the country's development. 🚀

The whole story is published by Journeyman tv! Find the link in the first comment, and let us know if you would like to address some other challenges and positive examples. 💬

12/22/2022

Remember this crew? 😍

The PBS team flew all the way from New York to capture the story of Bosnia and Herzegovina and our people.

Thank you for choosing Senad Santic and ZenDev as positive contributors to the country's development. 🚀

The whole story is published by Journeyman tv! Find the link in the first comment, and let us know if you would like to address some other challenges and positive examples. 💬

09/27/2022

A lovely story by our NYU students from our Bosnia trip, on passionate environmental activism against mini hydro dams. **This story is available for placement on professional broadcast or digital news outlets, contact us at [email protected]!
https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8362/saving-bosnias-rivers?fbclid=IwAR1ENYVbXHoV8Xr9ibuAHME6Eex6Qcl5W119ocQi84MYNymraa8xRJs6dsc

09/26/2022

A lovely story by our NYU students from our Bosnia trip, on passionate environmental activism against mini hydro dams. **This story is available for placement on professional broadcast or digital news outlets, please contact directly at [email protected]

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country still divided after a catastrophic war. Yet its three main ethnic groups have united against the construction of dams on the last of Europe's free-flowing rivers.

07/25/2022

Zeyar Thaw, executed by the Myanmar junta, was a remarkable person we were honored to meet at the very start of his political career, when he had the guts to allow a foreign TV crew into one of his first rallies in 2012. He remained an accessible champion for his country over the years. Video compilation below; we are deeply saddened and angered by his murder and that of Ko Jimmy (whom we also worked with) and two other activists, this weekend.

BIR coverage and interview with Myanmar democracy icon Zeyar Thaw on his first campaign in 2012 and in parliament in 2015.