Jeb Sharp is an American radio journalist. She is a reporter for the public radio program PRI's The World and host of The World's history podcast How We Got Here. She covers U.S. foreign policy and human rights as well as a wide range of other international stories. She has reported for the program from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. She is best known for radio documentaries on the history of Iraq, the history of U.S. - Iranian relations, the legacy of the Rwandan genocide and how wars end. She has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club for best radio news or interpretation of international affairs. Other honors include the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.
Some of her better-known series and reports include:
Sharp edits and maintains a blog,[5] detailing her work and providing a behinds the scenes look as she pursues her investigative work. She also produces a weekly podcast called "How We Got Here" that looks at history behind contemporary news stories.[6]
She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2006. Since 1938 more than 1,300 journalists from the U.S. and 88 other countries been awarded Nieman fellowships. Nieman Fellowships are awarded to "print, broadcast and online reporters, editors, photographers, producers, editorial writers and cartoonists with at least five years of full-time, professional experience in the news media."
Sharp 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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