International Reporting Fellows from the UBC School of Journalism reported on the causes — and devastating effects — of the lack of access to pain medication around the globe as part of the 2010-2011 International Reporting Program Pain Project.
The report, Life in Pain, will be featured in a two-part piece on the Global program 16×9 this Saturday, October 29th at 7:00pm, which will explore patients suffering from pain in Ukraine, Ghana, and India —a country which limits the access to pain medication such as morphine due to strict narcotics laws.
The International Reporting Program is an initiative aimed at teaching and producing enterprise global journalism. It offers journalism graduate students the opportunity to report on under-covered global stories.
Since the program began in 2008 it has partnered with major media organizations to produce works of journalism meant for wide distribution.
The program’s first project was an investigation into the international electrics waste trade, and the resulting PBS Frontline/WORLD documentary, Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground, won the 2010 Emmy for Best Investigative Magazine Story. The Program has also partnered with the Global & Mail, Al Jazeera and CBC.
UBC Journalism alumna Krysia Collier produced the piece for Global.
International Reporting Fellows include Jes Abeita, Sarah Buell, Rebecca Cheung, Evan Duggan, Daniel Hallen, Emily Jackson, Jenna Owsianik, Niamh Scallan and Robyn Smith.
Faculty members include Peter Klein, Sarah Carter, Kim Frank, Dan McKinney and Trisha Sorrells Doyle.
