Jeb Sharp is an American radio journalist. She is an editor and correspondent for

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's program ''

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''. She won the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club for best radio news or interpretation of international affairs in 2003 and in 2008. Other honors include the

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from the

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and the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma in 2009. Sharp was a Nieman Fellow at

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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

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-FM in Sitka, Alaska. She has also worked at WBUR, a public radio station, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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