Joyce Hackel
Senior Radio Producer
The WorldJoyce Hackel is a producer at The World who aims to find the right voice for stories that will make you stop and listen.
Joyce Hackel spends much of her day tracking down the right person to tell the nuanced stories that help explain today’s world. Joyce started writing deadline copies from a DC sweatshop called States News Service. After reporting one story too many about Congressional dysfunction (it was bad even then), she ditched the Capitol Hill press pass and bought a one-way ticket to El Salvador. There, she wrote for The Christian Science Monitor and filed freelance radio pieces from a closet lined with egg cartons. (She also met a British guy she’d eventually marry, but that’s another story…) Eventually, she became a staff correspondent for Monitor Radio and was dispatched to Africa for four years. She filed from more than a dozen African countries, reporting on clan warfare in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, and Nelson Mandela’s landmark election. She won a few awards for her Africa radio pieces and headed to the University of Michigan as a journalism fellow. Since then, Joyce has been a senior editor at Living on Earth and edited WBUR’s Morning Edition.
As Netanyahu and Khamenei face off, what’s the end game?
The leaders of Iran and Israel are confronting their limited options, as the fighting between their two countries continues. Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, discuss what lies ahead for the region with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler.
Ten years after Washington’s historic deal with Havana, Cuba remains adrift
Ten years after two US officials brokered a secret deal with Cuba, relations between Havana and Washington remain strained, marked by lingering tensions and limited progress toward normalization. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with former top national security officials Ben Rhodes and Ricardo Zúñiga about how the Cuba deal came about and why it ultimately collapsed.
Israel to expand Golan Heights settlements as Syria goes through political transition
The Golan Heights is recognized by the international community — except the US and Israel — as Israeli-occupied territory captured from Syria during the 1967 war. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Joshua Landis, from the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, about the significance of this contentious area.
Airstrike on school in Gaza further diminishes prospects of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Tahani Mustafa, senior Palestine analyst with the International Crisis Group, about a weekend airstrike on a school in Gaza that was being used to shelter civilians.
A look at the impact of pollution on rivers and efforts to keep them clean
The organizers of the Olympic Games in Paris spent $1.5 billion to clean up the River Seine. The World’s host, Carolyn Beeler, speaks with naturalist and author Sy Montgomery about other efforts to keep rivers clean around the planet.