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Byline: Sherry Ricchiardi When the message popped up on the iPad screen, I did a double take: Journalists were ponying up $1,195 for a two-day hostile-environment class to prepare for [...]

Byline: Sherry Ricchiardi, Special for USA TODAY As we slid into a taxi on a bone-chilling afternoon, the driver delivered the news: 'Lenin kaput,' he said with a wide grin. [...]

Byline: Sherry Ricchiardi When I arrived in South Sudan last May, I was driven to a drab hotel that lacked soap or drinkable water in my room. The mosquito netting [...]

Byline: Sherry Ricchiardi South Sudan's declaration of independence in July 2011 was hailed as a triumph of American foreign policy. Revelers danced in the streets of the world's newest nation. [...]

Byline: Sherry Ricchiardi Over 40 years, the memory has not dimmed. I was a neophyte reporter at The Des Moines Register, thrilled to snag an assignment for the Sunday newspaper. [...]

Byline: Sherry Ricchiardi, Special for USA TODAY I have worked with Pakistani journalists in their country and mine for the past five years. I marvel at their resilience in a [...]

Byline: Sherry Ricchiardi While Iran is in the headlines over a major breakthrough in nuclear talks, a topic affecting millions in the Islamic Republic remains under the radar. An army [...]

Byline: Sherry , Ricchiardi, Special for USA TODAY Her e-mail arrived at 4:49a.m. Nareen Shammo was tending to a 17-year-old girl who had been abducted, raped and sold into slavery [...]