Breaking News and News Features

  • Monaghan reporting from State Department media pen

    Reporting on Ukraine

    In May 2022 I returned to Reuters part-time in support of my colleagues in the field, monitoring social media, breaking news, and writing fast-moving reports on events related to the Ukraine war.

  • SpyTalk at the Movies: A Descent into Online Terror

    'Profile,' an unconventional thriller inspired by a French journalist’s real use of Facebook to infiltrate the Islamic State, exposes the possibilities and perils of social media. Read the full article here.

  • colin powell secretary of state elaine monaghan

    Why Powell Had to Go

    First-person reflection on the departure of Gen. Colin Powell as secretary of state. The Times Online (Nov. 16, 2004.)

  • "Costs of a Pullout Written in the Sand," CQ Weekly (Oct. 29, 2007)

    The Congressional Budget Office has examined several possible withdrawal scenarios and estimates cumulative costs for the war in Iraq to run as high as $1.7 trillion.

  • “Saving O’Brien’s,” The Times Online. (April 27, 2006.)

    I joined a group of Iraq war vets for what was billed as their penultimate Friday night dinner at a Washington DC hotel, whose lease was ending, as part of a series of columns on rehabilitation efforts by injured and PTSD-afflicted veterans. “Wasim has a breast implant where his kneecap should be.”

  • “Whiff of Doom over US Tobacco Fields,” The Times (June 28, 2003.)

    LARRY SAMPSON sucks in some nicotine, contemplates the whiff of death hanging over his tobacco crop and wills Congress to spare it from extinction.

  • “Visa problems bring rough justice in US,” The Times. (Jan. 28, 2003.)

    ALEXANDRE ROUHANI and his French wife, Yasmine, reported to an American immigration office for a routine visit one afternoon last month. By nightfall Mrs Rouhani was in jail and her husband was heading for hospital, where he was treated for serious injuries suffered during a brief detention. Their crime: minor visa infringements.

  • “Hundreds held in US round up of immigrants,” The Times. (Dec. 20, 2002.)

    HUNDREDS of men of Middle Eastern descent have been detained in the United States, many on minor visa violations, after they complied with an anti-terrorism law ordering them to register with immigration authorities.

  • "Russia sees swift START II approval-Talbott,” Reuters (April 9, 2000.)

    Interview with deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott that correctly and exclusively predicted Moscow’s parliament would soon approve this crucial arms reduction treaty. The vote took place five days later.

  • “Dissident Republicans Pose Threat to N.Irish Peace,” Reuters (Aug. 9, 1998.)

    DUBLIN - Concern is growing on both sides of the Irish border that dissident Irish republican groups are working together and gaining bomb-making skills - developments which could threaten the fragile Northern Ireland peace process.

  • “Dissident Republicans Deal Blow to N.Irish Peace,” Reuters (Aug. 15, 1998)

    DUBLIN - The bomb that killed more than 21 people in the town of Omagh on Saturday is the clearest sign yet that dissident republican groups will stop at nothing to wreck Northern Ireland's fragile peace process.

  • “Russia swallows pride to maintain Belarus ties,” Minsk, Reuters (Nov. 27, 1996)

    Moscow, humiliated by the collapse of a deal it brokered between rival factions in Belarus, will swallow its pride for a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the withdrawal to Russia of the last Soviet-era nuclear missile.

  • “Auschwitz - the Soviet liberator’s story,” Moscow, Reuters (Jan. 17, 1995)

    The prisoners were already dragging their emaciated bodies along the road from Auschwitz when Yuri Sklyarov's Soviet unit came upon them.

  • “Togliatti — the town that gave the world Ladas,” Togliatti, Russia, Reuter ( Dec. 27, 1994.)

    The Berlin Wall fell, the Cold War ended, Mikhail Gorbachev left the world's political stage. But Ladas had more staying-power.

Radio and Podcasts

  • NPR International Correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

    Since 2006, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has worked as an international correspondent for NPR, reporting from Cairo, founding the bureau in Kabul, Afghanistan, and now heading the Berlin bureau. Listen to the full show here.

  • Foreign Correspondent Roger Cohen

    Roger Cohen is a journalist, author, and columnist for the International New York Times and The New York Times, where his columns appear every Tuesday and Friday. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in 15 countries, and now serves as Times’s foreign editor. Listen to the full show here.

  • Documentarian And Journalist Ruth O'Reilly

    Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ruth O'Reilly has worked as a journalist and filmmaker since 1989. Her years in journalism started at The Irish News in Belfast and encompass newspapers, television, and radio, as well as a four-year stint with the Press Association in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Listen to the full show here.

  • Journalist Carol Giacomo

    Carol Giacomo is a former diplomatic correspondent for Reuters in Washington who covered foreign policy for the international wire service for more than two decades before joining the New York Times editorial board in August 2007. Listen to the full show here.

  • Through the Gates: 20/21 Year in Review with Jim & Elaine

    It’s been a year. Shutdowns, marathon zoom meetings, compensating for patchy internet and dealing with the stress of a global phenomenon. We got through it all, and came out with some stories to tell. Hosts Jim and Elaine take a moment to look back at the wild ride that was this year, and the challenges and creativity that saw us to this hopeful summer. Listen to the full show here.

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