Jeb Sharp

Jeb Sharp covers U.S. foreign policy and a wide range of other international stories as a correspondent for PRI's "The World." Sharp was a reporter at public radio station WBUR, Boston, before joining the staff of "The World" in 1998. 

Her 5-part series "How Wars End" was honored this year with the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.  Her series “Rwanda: Trying to Move On” earned the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Other awards include the OPC's 2003 Lowell Thomas Award for her "History of Iraq" radio series.  Sharp was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2005-2006.  She studied history at Cornell University and has a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. She began her public radio career covering local politics and environmental issues in Sitka, Alaska.