Joanna Kakissis

About

Joanna is a contributing international correspondent for NPR and a contributor to This American Life. Based in Athens, she files dispatches from all over Europe on the forces straining European unity. She has also filled in for NPR bureau chiefs in Berlin, Istanbul, Jerusalem, London and Paris, and has also reported from Afghanistan and Bangladesh for NPR, The New York Times and TIME. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker online, Foreign Policy, Politico and The Financial Times Magazine. She was part of a News & Observer (NC) team named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for breaking news in 2000.