NPR's Kelly McEvers Recounts a 'Bad Year' as War Correspondent

NPR correspondent Kelly McEvers has reported from the front lines of Syria’s civil war and Cairo’s Tahrir Square. In her radio documentary “Diary of a Bad Year,” McEvers chronicles her life as a war correspondent and explores her struggle to balance the dangers of her job with the pressures of family life and raising a young daughter. McEvers joins us to reflect on the life of a war reporter and to discuss her current work with NPR’s national desk.

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