Jeb Sharp

Who is Jeb Sharp?

Jeb Sharp is an American radio journalist. She is the producer of Public Radio International's program The World. Before that she was a correspondent for the program, reporting on U.S. foreign policy and human rights as well as a wide range of other international stories. She has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club for best radio news or interpretation of international affairs. Other honors include the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Sharp was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2006 and she was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook, a retreat for women writers, in 1995. She attended the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and began her career at KCAW-FM in Sitka, Alaska. She has also worked at WBUR, a public radio station, in Boston, Massachusetts.