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Susie Blair

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I'm an undergraduate student at Northeastern University where I am pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism with a minor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. In 2014, I participated in a 6-month co-op program as The World's Digital Production Assistant. My first reporting position was as stringer for my tiny hometown's weekly paper, The Littleton Independent. After covering selectmen's and planning board meetings - where I was often the only attendee - I accepted a co-op position at The Boston Globe's North Metro bureau, where I continued to cover local news. In the Spring of 2013 I spent four months studying in London and fell in love with everything about the city.The World is my first foray into the realm of international news and I could not be more excited.In my free time, I can be found consuming useless pop culture trivia and playing music.
MSF staff working in Ramtha Hospital (Jordan, near the Syrian border), where war wounded patients from Syria are being treated. MSF medical staff is doing rounds in the wards. The girl photographed lost one leg due to artillery injury.
Conflict
At a refugee hospital in Jordan, kids deal with war, resilience and friendship
Arts
‘My life in a nutshell is thoughts about sex every 9 seconds and being depressed every 12 seconds’
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in January 2002.
Conflict
Here’s how some veterans feel about torture tactics
Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan gives an address in Little Rock, Arkansas Luncheon to celebrate the bicentennial of the Mexican Independence Wars and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution in 2010.
Technology
One of the world’s original digital diplomats says Twitter is an ‘unrivaled tool’ for foreign policy
Laborers work at a construction site in Doha on June 18, 2012.
Development
Foreign workers face exploitation and death while building Qatar’s World Cup sites
A man uses his phone to read updates about former American NSA contractor Edward Snowden answering users' questions on Twitter.
Technology
To see the changes Edward Snowden wrought, just look at your smartphone
Finance Minister — and national celebrity — Martin Lousteau arrives at the session of the Development Committee during the last day of the spring IMF-World Bank meeting.
Geo Quiz
Some of this country’s biggest celebrities are economists — really
Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez calls his latest album "pure Garifuna."
Music
Music is a ‘weapon to make change’ for this Garifuna guitar player and activist
Beachcomber and historian Tracy Williams discovered her first Tjipetir block in the summer of 2012. Now, she runs a Facebook group collecting photos and stories of other blocks that have washed up on beaches throughout northern Europe.
Environment
We finally know why these mysterious ‘Tjipetir blocks’ are washing up on European beaches
Vietnamese immigrants pray to a small shrine erected five years ago. The area was once littered, covered in graffiti, and a frequent stop for the city's public works department. But after one neighborhood resident placed the statue on the corner, local Vi
Geo Quiz
Can you name the West Coast city where a Buddhist shrine turned a neighborhood around?
Doctors help each other with their protective suits during an Ebola virus drill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Health
An epidemiologist in Monrovia describes hazmat training — from hand washing to elbow bumps
The Malawi Mouse Boys pose with one of their homemade instruments. From left to right: Josephy Nekwankwa, Zondiwe Kachingwe, Nelson Muligo, Alfred Gavanala
Music
For a band of boys from Malawi, ‘performing is easy, life is hard’
Students prepare food during a class by French chef Eric Cros (left) at the Institut Paul Bocuse.
Culture
French chefs say they shouldn’t have to take the heat to stay in the kitchen
Single malt whisky is seen in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Geo Quiz
This country has passed Scotland in the world whisky ranks. Can you name it?
Ebola evacuation
Health
An epidemiologist suggests we take cues from the AIDS crisis in dealing with Ebola
A masked man speaking in what is believed to be a North American accent in a video that Islamic State militants released in September 2014.
Conflict
ISIS taunts the West in its latest beheading video
U.S. Army soldiers carry a large U.S. flag as they march in the Veterans Day parade on 5th Avenue in New York November 11, 2014.
Justice
Should deported veterans get benefits from the military? Here’s what some vets say
Students from a high school cheer for their seniors in front of a college entrance examination hall before the exam begins in Seoul, South Korea.
Education
South Korea falls silent for college entrance exams — but students still feel the pressure
Servicemen from the US military take an oath during a naturalization ceremony at the Al-Faw Palace in Baghdad's Camp Victory on July 4, 2011.
Justice
Some American veterans get kicked out of the country they served
A booth serving Chifa booth at a food conference.
Geo Quiz
Name a South American city that has a thriving Asian fusion food scene
Joe Arthur, one of the vocalists featured on "Altus Silva" by Big Blue Ball
Music
The Big Blue Ball project defines 25 years of Real World Records
JuJu is made up of Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, the band's founding members.
Music
The music of JuJu is where West African tradition meets English punk
The Creole Choir of Cuba, who sing impassioned songs influenced by both traditional gospel and Caribbean music.
Music
This Haitian-Cuban choir delivers haunting vocals in Creole
Sierra Leonean nurse Veronica Koroma (left) and doctor Donald Samuel Grant (right) stand by a patient in the Lassa fever ward at Kenema Government Hospital in February, 2011
Health
West Africans have another virus to worry about — Lassa fever
Afro Celt Sound System, a band known for their unique blend of traditional West African and Irish music.
Music
This band created a ‘tripped out’ musical mix of Ireland and West Africa
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Pakistani singer who is known for bringing Qawwali music to a global audience.
Music
This record label helped put Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the global map
Nurse Deborah Wilson has recently returned from Liberia, where she worked with Doctors Without Borders to treat Ebola patients.
Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
People ride bicycles across the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, the city’s main canal.
Geo Quiz
Which American city could potentially adopt a canal system to combat rising tides?
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Music
The love affair between Mexican Americans and Morrissey isn’t that surprising
Soldiers from the U.S. Army put on one of three pairs of protective gloves during their final session of personal protective equipment training.
Health
How ‘big data’ could help stop the spread of Ebola
A girl rides a bicycle on a balcony in the "Tower of David" skyscraper.
Development
This South American city is home to the ‘world’s tallest squat’
PFC Justin Blue of the 3rd Platoon, Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Calvary Regiment, from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He is taking a break while on patrol near the village of Qalandrakhel a few miles outside of B
Conflict
Using a pencil, not a lens, to capture images of the war in Afghanistan
Marines take a smoke break at Camp America, Guantanamo Bay.
Arts
These photos capture Guantanamo’s double life as a tropical prison and an all-American oasis in Cuba
The Mexican polka-influenced band, Polka Madre.
Geo Quiz
The music of this European region is unexpectedly popular in Mexico
Gay rights activists march with a banner during a May Day rally in St. Petersburg. The banner reads, "Love is stronger than war!"
Global Politics
A gay Russian teen has been outed as he seeks asylum in the US
Pipers from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Massed Pipes and Drums perform during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival parade in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Geo Quiz
Which country, aside from Scotland, manufactures most of the world’s bagpipes?
Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, an MSF Mental Health Manager from Norway, poses with six-year-old Ebola survivor Patrick.
Health
Ebola forges a bond between a young boy and the psychologist who helped him
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a live televised address to the nation on his plans for military action against the Islamic State on September 10, 2014.
Global Politics
In dealing with ISIS, Obama could take cues from the Camp David Accords
Turkish soldiers stand at a position on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc on September 24, 2014.
Conflict
Turkey prepares to shift course and take military action against ISIS
In Novemeber of 2009, Eric Holder announced that the accused mastermind of the September 11th attacks, and four other top terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, would be prosecuted in criminal courts.
Justice
Eric Holder will resign, leaving a mixed legacy on national security issues
Emilio Basilius of the Coral Reef Research Foundation holds up one of the hundreds of samples of marine organisms for the National Cancer Institute in the US.
Geo Quiz
Which Indo-Pacific island’s waters are host to potentially cancer-fighting molecules?
Scientists holds the arms of a colossal squid as they examine the squid at a national museum facility in Wellington, New Zealand.
Science
A rare colossal squid was dissected in New Zealand — and you can watch it on YouTube
Members of a white supremacy group give the fascist salute during a Wisconsin gathering in 2011.
Belief
A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan
The village of Arinagour on the remote Scottish island.
Geo Quiz
This tiny Scottish island is an unplugged getaway — can you name it?
Coffins of US military personnel are prepared to be offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware in this undated photo. From 1991 to 2009, the government did not permit photographing the return of servicemembers killed in action.
Media
Graphic images of war are hard to stomach — but some say they’re necessary
A motor panga (fishing boat) en route to Punta Patiño, a wildlife reserve in the Darién Gap.
Environment
At the Darién Gap, the Pan-American Highway’s 30,000 mile journey is interrupted by 100 miles of barely tamable jungle
A freshly caught lobster sits in a holding tank before being delivered to a wholesaler in Portland, Maine.
Food
Here’s how the low-rent lobster became an expensive global star
Cyberwarfare is increasingly prevalent in modern conflicts, and is getting "more complex and more dangerous," says NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Conflict
NATO takes aim at Russia’s attacks — online
Bedouin loot barbed wire near a police checkpoint on the Egyptian border with Israel on the Sinai Peninsula.
Conflict
An Eritrean refugee endured brutal torture. But he may find hope on a ranch in California
A boy looks at posters issued by the Liberian government warning against Ebola at Duwala market in Monrovia.
Health
Liberia’s hottest hip-hop station has all the latest Ebola music and news
Sergei Dovlatov in 1980.
Books
Which New York City borough will soon be home Sergei Dovlatov Way?
Sille Kongstad's bicycle-powered hearse.
Culture
Which European city has recently adopted the bicycle-powered hearse?
Francesco Papa, a prisoner on the penal colony, walks between rows of grapevines.
Food
Name the Italian island known for its prisoner-produced wine
Every year, a jousting tournament is held at Kaltenburg Castle.
Geo Quiz
Fancy a joust? Name the German state that hosts a medieval-style jousting tournament
Every year, a jousting tournament is held at Kaltenburg Castle.
Geo Quiz
Fancy a joust? Name the German state that hosts a medieval-style jousting tournament
A Russian tank drives past the Kremlin during a rehearsal for the Victory parade on Moscow's Red Square on May 5, 2014.
Global Politics
An American faces a bewildering end to her decade in Russia
Waves at the North Sea are pictured at a quay wall in Cuxhaven, Germany.
Environment
Name the lost landmass that once bridged the UK and Europe
Media
David Duchovny’s pro-Russian beer ad stirs up a controversy
Dhalpurie roti served with pumpkin, potato and goat meat curry.
Lifestyle & Belief
What Caribbean island is known for its traditional bread dish, roti?