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Ibby Caputo

Ibby Caputo is an award-winning journalist and was a 2014 MIT-Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has worked as a story editor for The World and in 2018, she received a fellowship through the Japan Center for International Exchange to report in Japan for The World. Ibby covered health care, transportation, and breaking news as a reporter for WGBH’s Boston Public Radio and WGBH TV. Her work has also aired on WNYC,NPR News, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace Morning Report, Marketplace Tech, Scene on Radio, Australia Public Broadcasting’s Radiotonic, and the BBC shows Short Cuts and Boston Calling. Her journalism, essays and photography have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Boston Globe Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Cape Cod Times, The Times-Picayune, theAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. In 2017, she reported on the 91st General Assembly of the Arkansas State Legislature for ANNN, the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network. Ibby received an award for hard news and was part of the team that won an award for investigative reporting, both from The Associated Press. Her audio documentary, “Crying Dry Tears,” received first place in The Missouri Review’s 2016 Miller Audio Contest. 
Hiroshima target map

Seven decades after the bomb, children of Hiroshima victims still worry about hidden health effects

Health

Years before she was born, Nakatani Etsuko’s father was poisoned by radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. More than 70 years later, she still worries that she might get sick, too, and she wants the Japanese government to help.

People are working at computers in a large open office

Japan’s shrinking labor force is finding new ways to fight karōshi — ‘death by overwork’

Health
Japan #MeToo

In Japan, sexual harassment isn’t a crime. Women who say #MeToo are targets.

Takuya Yokota in Tokyo in November 2017. He continues to speak out about North Korea's abduction of his sister in 1977.

Japan could ease tensions with North Korea — if North Korea comes clean on its abduction of Japanese citizens

Conflict & Justice
An older Japanese man hugs former President Barack Obama

Why this Hiroshima survivor dedicated his life to searching for the families of 12 American POWs

Justice
A man holds two fingers up on each hand as he exits an airplane. On the left is Donald Trump. Melania Trump is on the right.

End of Iran nuclear deal cuts major diplomatic channel for Americans imprisoned in Iran

Justice

When Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear agreement, it cut a major diplomatic channel to Iran: Diplomats from Europe, China, Russia, the US and Iran would meet every three months. Family members of American citizens imprisoned in Iran viewed these quarterly meetings as a chance for their loved ones to be discussed and possibly freed.

Hospitals in the US mainland are facing shortages of IV fluids and medicine because of Hurricane Maria's damage to Puerto Rico.

Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Then it caused a ripple effect in mainland hospitals.

Medicine

There was already a problem with the supply of IV fluid bags at US hospitals. But the hurricane devastation in Puerto Rico made it much worse.

Xiyue Wang and Hua Qu with their son. Wang has been in prison in Iran for more than a year.

The wife of a Princeton scholar imprisoned in Iran worries about the fate of the Iran nuclear deal

Justice

President Donald Trump called on Iran to free all Americans and citizens of other nations who are being detained. One of those Americans imprisoned in Iran is Xiyue Wang.

Burial grounds in Majuro.

Rising seas are washing away graves in the Marshall Islands

Environment

The Marshall Islands, where American scientists tested dozens of nuclear weapons, now face the challenge of rising seas.

Marathon runner and surgeon David King.

For a Boston surgeon and marathoner, this year’s race is a chance to move on

Conflict & Justice

David King ran the Boston Marathon last year. After he finished, he learned about the bombing. So he started his second marathon — of trauma surgeries at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. Now he hopes to look ahead and not back.David King ran the Boston Marathon last year. After he finished, he learned about the bombing. So he started his second marathon — of trauma surgeries at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. Now he hopes to look ahead and not back.