Sonia Narang
Multimedia Journalist/Producer
Sonia Narang is a multimedia journalist who reports on women's rights, climate change & the environment, global health, and music & culture. She has produced and reported in-depth multimedia projects at PRI's The World, including award-winning series on
women in Nepal, the fight against
cancer around the world, and an innovative school in South Africa. She has also filmed musicians for The World’s Global Hit web videos.
Sonia has produced and reported stories across Asia & the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and North America for the BBC, NPR News, Washington Post's The Lily, The New York Times, Frontline/World, NBC, and Time.com.
A native Californian, Sonia has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before that, she cut her teeth reporting and photographing for a newspaper in Colorado.
Recent Stories
Music
The World
August 08, 2019
Brazilian musician Maria Beraldo is gaining fans with her provocative, opinionated lyrics, and has found a niche audience in Brazil, especially among young women and girls and many in the LGBTQ community.
The World
July 22, 2019
As emigration changed the make-up of Portugal's Azores islands, musician Rafael Carvalho and his students are reviving nearly-lost traditions.
GlobalPost
August 14, 2018
When disaster strikes, it’s often women who are affected the most.
Environment
GlobalPost
May 25, 2018
In a region that only receives six inches of rainfall per year, each degree of temperature increase has an extreme effect on the arid land. “You add just a little bit of a temperature increase to a place that's already on the edge, and you've made an enormous change in the living conditions there,” one expert says.
Culture
GlobalPost
March 07, 2018
The Sámi are an indigenous population in the northern parts of Finland, as well as Sweden, Norway and Russia. However, the warming climate has threatened to disrupt the Sámi people's centuries-old tradition of reindeer herding. As Arctic temperatures rise more than twice as fast as the global average, reindeer herders are struggling to cope with increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather.
Environment
The World
November 16, 2017
Elisabeth Holland says countries like Fiji are facing a "truly existential crisis."
Environment
The World
November 13, 2017
This year's global climate summit is taking place in Germany, but it's being led by the Pacific island nation of Fiji. Here's what half a dozen Fijians think about hosting the conference and life in the cross-hairs of climate change.
Arts
The World
September 20, 2017
Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week featured the creations of designers from First Nations communities across Canada.
Arts
The World
September 15, 2017
French artist JR announced this new installation in Tecate, California, the day the Trump administration announced the end of the DACA program, which protects some undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation.
Education
The World
August 28, 2017
Scientists say warming ocean temperatures are a factor behind stronger storms and changing weather patterns in the South Pacific.
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