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Julia Barton

Julia is a long-time public media editor and reporter. She started freelancing for PRI’s The World in 1999, and has reported from Russia, Ukraine and the US/Mexico border. Her work has appeared on Radiolab, NPR News, Marketplace, PRI's Studio 360, and the podcast 99% Invisible, among other shows.Julia is the former senior editor for Across Women’s Lives, PRI's special coverage of gender equity and the role of women in society. Julia has been an editor for APM’s Weekend America and the podcast Life of the Law, as well as editorial coordinator for PRX's Radiotopia podcast network. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and got her start in radio as a board-op at WSUI in Iowa City, where she cut reel-to-reel tape with razor blades in the world before digital audio took over.
Arts, Culture & Media
Live in the Studio: Bahamas
Arts, Culture & Media
You Should Finally Read “Infinite Jest”
Julia Barton's father
Culture
Returning to the secret government lab where my grandfather worked
The the main club house inside Mezhgorye, the residence of Ukraine's ousted president Victor Yanukovych.
Conflict
Ukrainians vowed to turn their ex-president’s estate into a ‘Museum of Corruption.’ But it’s something else now.
Georgiy Gaidamaka left his native Simferopol, in Crimea, after the Russian government said it would cut end the methadone­ substitution therapy he’d relied on to treat his heroin addiction. Now he lives in Kiev, where he builds amplifiers from old Soviet
Conflict
For Ukrainians displaced by conflict, there’s no going back
Reunion Tower in Dallas at night.
Culture
The failed socialist utopian dream that helped Dallas become a major city
Children reading "Gbagba"
Books
This children’s book is starting a national conversation about corruption in Liberia
Julie Doucet
Arts
After a fracas over French ‘male-only’ prize for graphic novelists, world takes note of women artists
Carroll Gardens vigil
Conflict
In Brooklyn, a big Muslim voice sounds out against terror
Difret
Justice
The story of one girl who fought abduction, and the lawyers who saved her life
Elizabeth Williams and Ashley Judd
Development
Ashley Judd to girls worldwide: We go from hurting to healing to helping
Plans for Hughes Glomar Explorer
Technology
Confirmed: The CIA’s most famous ship headed for the scrapyard
lead image soccer
Sports
The US Women’s National Soccer team made history for girls everywhere. Again.
Circassian protest on Times Square in 2011.
Culture
The day to remember the ‘forgotten genocide’
police scene purvi
Medicine
Who is the doctor who paved the way to prison for Purvi Patel?
Purvi Patel is taken into custody after being sentenced to 20 years in prison for feticide and neglect of a dependent on Monday, March 30, 2015, at the St. Joseph County Courthouse in South Bend, Ind.
Medicine
Six disturbing medical issues in the case of Purvi Patel, and one hopeful one
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan warned against violence ahead of Saturday's presidential election.
Global Politics
Nigeria’s choices for president: a former military ruler or a corrupt incumbent
UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (C), former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (R) participate in an event on empowering woman and girls, at the World Bank.
Development
What’s the status of women’s rights 20 years after Beijing?
Khabarovsk's reported new airport logo.
Culture
Hello, Putin! A flying bear that swept the Internet
Lifestyle & Belief
Russia cuts its traffic deaths with tough fines —and upbeat ads
Russia maternity
Health & Medicine
Russia’s looking to improve the quality of its maternity care — but it has a long way to go
Olympic Mishka statue.
Sports
This Moscow man remembers the 1980 Summer Olympics as a beautiful fairy tale
Lyubov Varicheva teaches English at the Sochi College of Multicultural Education in Russia. She says because of "volunteering" demands on teachers here, her students probably won’t get much in the way of instruction during the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Sports
Many in Sochi are excited to show off their city for the Olympics — but not all
Sochi has been struggling to make its public spaces handicapped accessible, including sidewalk markings for the visually impaired. Two weeks before the Olympics, there was still work to be done.
Sports
Sochi says goodbye to its Soviet era and hello to a modern Olympics
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aliokhina speak with two supporters at the Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow. Many wanted to speak with them about prison conditions in Russia.
Global Politics
What’s next for Pussy Riot? Prison reform and global celebrity
Arts, Culture & Media
The Where, the Why, and the How
Arts, Culture & Media
American Icons: Television’s Dallas
Arts, Culture & Media
The Forgotten Circassian Nation
Global Politics
Beyond Class Part III: Class in the Shadow of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution
Business, Economics and Jobs
Sochi 2014: Building Boom for Winter Olympics Leaves Some Behind
Conflict & Justice
Ukraine’s Embassy of God Evangelical Church Struggles With Founder’s Controversy
Sports
Slideshow: Sochi Prepares for the Winter Olympics
Alexander Yellin
Arts, Culture & Media
Writing the Best Known Pro-Putin and Anti-Putin Songs
Global Politics
Russia’s Gazprom Struggles to Keep Europe Warm
Arts, Culture & Media
Ronnie Dunn’s Secret Stash of Soviet Art
Philadelphia Urban Blight
Arts, Culture & Media
Dallas