Jeb Sharp is an American radio journalist. She is an editor and correspondent for Public Radio International's program The World.[1] She won the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club for best radio news or interpretation of international affairs in 2003[2] and in 2008.[3] Other honors include the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists[4] and the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma in 2009.[5] Sharp was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2006[6] and she was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook, a retreat for women writers, in 1995. She attended the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and began her career at KCAW-FM in Sitka, Alaska. She has also worked at WBUR, a public radio station, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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  1. ↑ "WGBH 'World' correspondent, a Cambridge native, honored twice". Wicked Local: Cambridge. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "2003 OPC Award Winners". Overseas Press Club of America. 22 April 2004. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "The Lowel Thomas Award 2008". Overseas Press Club of America. 19 April 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Jeb Sharp a Recipient of Sigma Delta Chi Award". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "2009 Dart Awards". Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  6. ↑ "Jeb Sharp". Nieman Reports. Retrieved 13 May 2019.


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