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.
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.
Counting the civilian death toll in Gaza
Gathering accurate statistics detailing the ever-mounting toll of civilian deaths in Gaza has been an immense challenge. Now, a new study by the independent British research group Airwars has examined the statistics Gaza’s Health Ministry provided in the war’s first 17 days. Airwars’ head of investigations, Joe Dyke, tells The World’s Marco Werman why he thinks the Health Ministry’s estimates are reliable.
‘Our community is terrified’: A faith leader talks about what it means to be a Palestinian Christian in the US
Pastor Khader Khalilia is one of the few Palestinian Christian faith leaders in the United States. He talks to The World’s host, Marco Werman, about what it’s been like to lead a church in the US, especially during the past nine months of war in Gaza.
For many across the globe, the US’ ‘beacon’ of democracy dims
Political violence and increasing polarization in the United States have led much of the world to question what the country represents. Steven Levitsky, author of “Tyranny of the Minority,” tells host Carolyn Beeler that violence frequently occurs in democracies. What matters most is whether political leaders rally in response to ensure that democratic principles endure.
