New Show Challenges Idea 'Nobody Cares About The Caribbean?'
Former Miss Jamaica Universe Zahra Burton enjoyed being a local reporter in Kingston, but always dreamed of reporting in America. So she moved to the U.S., earned a Masters in Broadcast Journalism, and began an internship at Bloomberg. "Luckily for me, my dream came true," she tells NPR's Michel Martin.
Burton reported from Wall Street during the height of the financial crisis, and remembers it as "an incredible time to be a financial journalist." But after seven years, she began to feel an urge to tell "stories that made me feel better about what I was contributing to society." So she headed back home to her old beat in Jamaica, but with big plans to tell a wider story.
Burton is now the Host and Executive Producer of 18 Degrees North, an investigative news show that is broadcast in 27 countries. "What I wanted to do was to show the world that, when you're talking about global affairs, there are a lot of Caribbean stories that should be spoken about," she explains.