Listen to Jess Engebretson '09
Discuss Her Work on War News Radio

by Nancy Nicely
12/04/2007

Jess Engebretson '09,  an English literature major from Washington, D.C., discusses her work as a senior producer of War News Radio on a recent broadcast by Washington Monthly on the Radio.   Read more about Jess inThe Phoenix. She is joined by journalist-in-residence Ayub Nuri, an Iraqi journalist who joined War News Radio this year.   Find the podcast here.

This week's War News Radio features a reporter in Kirkuk province who's been following the Iraqi police and army as they take on a major security operation and examines how TV shows like Dr. Phil and Oprah are showing Iraqis a different side of American culture. This week also includes one man's dream to rebuild Iraq's film industry and the first-person story of an Iraqi garbage collector.