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03/04/2017

Here's the Bangladesh leather tannery segment on PBS NewsHour that Adam Matthews helped produced.

Rotting animal hides and toxic chemicals. That's the stench emanating from a neighborhood in Bangladesh’s capital, where hundreds of leather tanneries are pa...

30/03/2017

Congrats Adam Matthews on your first story produced for PBS NewsHour!

Despite several court orders to close down, more than 150 tanneries in Dhaka, Bangladesh's Hazaribagh district continue to operate while dumping 21,000 cubic feet of untreated wastewater daily into one of the world's most crowded cities.

11/05/2016

Congrats to ReportersAsia founder Adam Matthews and Newsweek for winning The Deadline Club/Society of Professional Journalists Magazine Investigative Reporting award!

01/06/2014

Plans today? Check out RA's Adam Matthews on the Left Forum panel on Rana Plaza | CUNY Graduate Center http://bit.ly/1hMPaUB

22/05/2014

Regardless of a new government, cooking gas corruption is staying in India. RA's Adam Matthews investigates for Quartz. - http://bit.ly/1gUt3AP

22/05/2014

RA's Adam Matthews examines the legacy of the elusive Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran for Roads and Kingdoms - http://bit.ly/1toAPEV. Photos by Jocelyn Baun Photography

Five years after the Sri Lankan Army killed the Tamil Tiger leader, his most ardent supporters refuse to believe Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead.

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/the-ghost-of-prabhakaran/

17/05/2014

RA's Adam Matthews meets the man behind the push for an independent Tamil state on Sri Lanka via OZY. http://bit.ly/1o0csLD
Photos by Jocelyn Baun Photography

22/01/2014

Lovely animated video about an Indian rickshaw wala's (driver's) day - http://bit.ly/1bVsgef

The film beautifully captures the tough workday life of a rickshaw driver in Bangalore, or in any other Indian city for that matter.

04/01/2014

"Where was their responsibility when we were being attacked?" Indian Muslims refuse to go home after recent religious violence in Uttar Pradesh. http://nyti.ms/1dzCC3A

Four months after a spasm of religious violence in the state of Uttar Pradesh, an estimated 15,000 displaced Muslims remain in tent cities, not believing it is safe to return.

28/12/2013

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting's 2013: A Year in Pictures

It has been another great year here at the Pulitzer Center. In 2013, we funded 80 projects and had 364 story placements in 49 media outlets.

23/12/2013

Jannatul Mawa's portrait of Bangladeshi middle-class women and their housemaids. http://bit.ly/1eAijWx

Traditionally housemaid (helping hand) work for just two meals a day and assist the middle-class women, both housewives and working women in Bangladesh. They don’t have fixed working-hour or...

22/12/2013

Well Morgan Freeman DID play Mandela in Invictus. http://bit.ly/19FyduO

While you hate to laugh at someone who clearly meant well, it's hard not to chuckle a bit at this memorial sign for Nelson Mandela in the southern Indian city of Coimbatore.

18/12/2013

India retaliates over arrest of US arrest of a diplomat. http://nyti.ms/1eoE77v

Politicians from across the Indian political spectrum expressed anger, and the New Delhi police in turn removed security barriers that were meant to protect the American Embassy.

13/12/2013

"How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work." Freelance journalist Nate Thayer sounds off. http://bit.ly/IU11Vr

How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work By Nate Thayer December 8, 2013 I am banned by legal agreement to write the following: ABC Television/ Disney Corporation, after seven years in...

10/12/2013

Delhi's longtime chief minister Sheila Diksh*t ousted by newcomer Arvind Kejriwal - discussed by RA contributor Vaibhav Vats. http://nyti.ms/JbcQHU

Though Sheila Diksh*t could boast of substantial achievements during her 15-year reign, she had no answer for the voters who soured on her Congress Party.

10/12/2013

Finally! Al Jazeera America is on Time Warner. NYC channel is 785.

09/12/2013

Images of Bhopal's citizen's nearly three decades after the Union Carbide gas leak - http://bit.ly/1cwqP5n. Photos: Jocelyn Baun Photography

05/12/2013

Underneath Bhopal's veneer of normality, 1984's Union Carbide gas leak still affects its citizens. Words: Vaibhav Vats Photo: Jocelyn Baun
http://bit.ly/19kkDcc

25/09/2013

"The brutal r**e of a young woman in New Delhi last year has led Indians to ask why women are so unsafe in public spaces. Daily travels are often filled with a sense of insecurity."

The brutal r**e of a young woman in New Delhi last year has led Indians to ask why women are so unsafe in public spaces. Daily travels are often filled with a sense of insecurity.

17/09/2013

“The lack of health care, tolerably good schools and other basic facilities important for human well-being and elementary freedoms, keeps a majority of Indians shackled to their deprived lives in a way quite rarely seen in other self-respecting countries that are trying to move ahead in the world.” Gotta read this book.

Despite its vaunted success, the country has failed to meet the basic needs of many of its people.

14/09/2013

Delhi r**e: how India's other half lives

A must-read piece on the Delhi r**e case.

The brutal gang-r**e on a bus highlighted the routine abuse of Indian women – and how the nation's surge to superpower status has left millions behind struggling on the margins

11/09/2013

Check out 's work from Madhya Pradesh on the failure of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) to feed its people. http://bit.ly/15XhnkD