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Joanna Kakissis

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Joanna Kakissis reports for NPR and Time magazine from her base in Athens, Greece. Her stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times magazine and The Caravan, and on PRI’s The World and Marketplace.

"Why’s this so good?" No. 63: Michael Paterniti and the earthquake

After a 7.0 earthquake destroyed Haiti on Jan. 23, 2010, I spent weeks reading news reports about a tragedy so massive and devastating the numbers alone overwhelmed me: more than 316,000…