Ibby CaputoIC

Ibby Caputo

Ibby Caputo is an award-winning journalist and was a 2014 MIT-Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has worked as a story editor for The World and in 2018, she received a fellowship through the Japan Center for International Exchange to report in Japan for The World. Ibby covered health care, transportation, and breaking news as a reporter for WGBH’s Boston Public Radio and WGBH TV. Her work has also aired on WNYC,NPR News, Morning Edition, All Things ConsideredWeekend Edition, Marketplace Morning Report, Marketplace Tech, Scene on Radio, Australia Public Broadcasting’s Radiotonic, and the BBC shows Short Cuts and Boston Calling. Her journalism, essays and photography have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Boston Globe Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Cape Cod Times, The Times-Picayune, theAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. In 2017, she reported on the 91st General Assembly of the Arkansas State Legislature for ANNN, the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network. Ibby received an award for hard news and was part of the team that won an award for investigative reporting, both from The Associated Press. Her audio documentary, “Crying Dry Tears,” received first place in The Missouri Review’s 2016 Miller Audio Contest. 
Hiroshima survivor who devoted his life to finding the families of 12 American POWs has died
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House speaker Kevin McCarthy says funding for Ukraine and tightening the US-Mexico border are linked
Hiroshima target map
Health
Seven decades after the bomb, children of Hiroshima victims still worry about hidden health effects
People are working at computers in a large open office
Health
Japan’s shrinking labor force is finding new ways to fight karōshi — ‘death by overwork’
Japan #MeToo
In Japan, sexual harassment isn’t a crime. Women who say #MeToo are targets.
Takuya Yokota in Tokyo in November 2017. He continues to speak out about North Korea's abduction of his sister in 1977.
Conflict & Justice
Japan could ease tensions with North Korea — if North Korea comes clean on its abduction of Japanese citizens
An older Japanese man hugs former President Barack Obama
Justice
Why this Hiroshima survivor dedicated his life to searching for the families of 12 American POWs
A man holds two fingers up on each hand as he exits an airplane. On the left is Donald Trump. Melania Trump is on the right.
Justice
End of Iran nuclear deal cuts major diplomatic channel for Americans imprisoned in Iran
Hospitals in the US mainland are facing shortages of IV fluids and medicine because of Hurricane Maria's damage to Puerto Rico.
Medicine
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Then it caused a ripple effect in mainland hospitals.
Xiyue Wang and Hua Qu with their son. Wang has been in prison in Iran for more than a year.
Justice
The wife of a Princeton scholar imprisoned in Iran worries about the fate of the Iran nuclear deal
Burial grounds in Majuro.
Environment
Rising seas are washing away graves in the Marshall Islands
Marathon runner and surgeon David King.
Conflict & Justice
For a Boston surgeon and marathoner, this year’s race is a chance to move on
War of the Worlds
Arts, Culture & Media
‘War of the Worlds’ turns 75. Could it happen again?
Conflict & Justice
Egyptian expats in the US feel chaos from afar
Conflict & Justice
President Obama Condemns ‘Act of Terrorism’
Arts, Culture & Media
The Bells of St. Michael the Archangel: A Ringing Tradition Continues in England