Kosovo's Hope: Stories of Renewal and Despair in an Independent Nation

Authors

Clay Lomneth, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Michael Mason-D'Croz, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Lindsay DeMarco, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Karen Schmidt, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Vanessa Skocz, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Shannon Smith, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Kate Veik, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Joel Gehringer, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Bruce Thorson, University of Nebraska at LincolnFollow
Scott Winter, University of Nebraska at LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

Summer 2009

Comments

University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Depth Report 2009. DEEP is a periodic publication of the depth reporting classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Abstract

During spring break of 2008, five photojournalists, one reporter, one videographer and two faculty members spent eight days in the newly independent state of Kosovo. The purpose of the trip was to document issues of poverty. What greeted them was a town with litter everywhere; roads pocked with potholes; power outages because the power plant is archaic; and residents who are dying from the pollution because they live near the power plant. But what the journalists discovered was Kosovo's people have big smiles, warm hearts and plates of great, great food. … And they love Americans.