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Joe Rubin

Joe Rubin is a Sacramento-based reporter and producer.

Joe Rubin is a Sacramento-based reporter and producer. His stories have ranged from a  hard hitting report he produced for the Center For Investigative Reporting about nuclear power and seismic safety in the United States, to covering the emerging renewable energy sector in Japan. Joe’s work has appeared on PBS Frontline, ABC's Nightline, Al Jazeera and many public radio programs including Marketplace, Morning Edition and The World. Joe is also a multi-media innovator. “iWitness,” a webcam interview series he helped create and host for PBS's Frontline World, won two Webbys.

Friends in Jesus African International Church

Where Ebola hits home in the United States

Health

As the Ebola crisis grows, a California church is helping one community with strong ties to Liberia cope.

Chickens and other livestock grown without the use of antibiotics are a small but growing part of the U.S. market. Perdue is now the largest producer of antibiotic-free chicken in the country, and other big players in the food industry are following the l

Consumers are demanding antibiotic-free meat, and Big Food is starting to listen

Environment
Chickens and other livestock grown without the use of antibiotics are a small but growing part of the U.S. market. Perdue is now the largest producer of antibiotic-free chicken in the country, and other big players in the food industry are following the l

Consumers are demanding antibiotic-free meat, and Big Food is starting to listen

Environment

California takes a cue from Europe and considers tough rules to limit the spread of antibiotic-resistant bugs

Health & Medicine
Two experimental "wind lenses" rise over a park in Fukuoka, Japan.

Post-Fukushima, An Energy Tug-of-War in Japan

Environment
The World

Panama’s Litter of Yankee Armaments

As the U.S. prepares to return the canal which bears its country’s namesake to Panama, Panamanians are expressing their concerns that the Yankees are also leaving behind the dangerous litter of lethal armaments from their war exercises. Joe Rubin prepared this report.

The World

Doctor Shaman

The rainforests of Central and South America are rich with medicinal plants that are gradually becoming known to modern medicine. Some pharmaceutical companies are prospecting in these regions for beneficial, and profitable, remedies. Now there is growing interest among medical students in the practitioners of centuries old healing techniques. We know them as medicine men […]