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Since 2001 SFM Consulting has been helping clients achieve their goals from launching a new national documentary series, to starting up a local call-in talk show. SFM Consulting provides strategic marketing services for program producers, consults and advises producers on how to make better radio, and helps PD's manage their staff more effectively. SFM Consulting is all about creating great radio and helping get great radio heard by the largest possible audience.

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February, 2008 — Public Radio International (PRI) and America Abroad Media proudly announce that esteemed journalist Deborah Amos now co-anchors "America Abroad." Amos joins Ray Suarez, one of the nation's most celebrated news anchors. An incisive series on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, "America Abroad" has been part of the PRI portfolio since 2003, with programs aired and webcast by over 200 PRI affiliate stations nationwide.

Currently Available:

Pipeline Politics and
Caspian Conflict

Available in Content Depot

Anchored by Ray Suarez and Deb Amos

Follow the money-it's flowing from countries hooked on oil to those who control the crude. And it's not just the Middle East that's cashing in. Russia's resource-rich backyard has Putin standing on a pile of petro dollars, and trying to make sure no one interferes with Russia's control of the Caspian region. But since the break-up of the Soviet Union an area that Russia considers its backyard, the US considers fair game. Right now, the only pipeline to the west that doesn't feed Russia's coffers passes through America's ally Georgia-the site of a recent dust-up. And staggering oil prices only fuel the competition for power and influence, and the potential for conflict, in the former Soviet states. We'll touch down in Moscow, Tblisi, and Baku to explore the pipeline politics between Russia and the west.

Featured Program

Now available in Content Depot

America Abroad is anchored by Ray Suarez with new co-anchor Deborah Amos

Winning the Peace: Rebuilding Nations from the Ashes of Conflict
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was reportedly fond of citing the Pottery Barn Rule, “you break it, you own it” The US had no trouble breaking the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq. But rebuilding those nations has proved much more difficult. On this edition of America Abroad we’ll take a look at why the US has struggled to put Humpty Dumpty back together again in Iraq and Afghanistan? We’ll tread the halls of the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom, and Capitol Hill to see how many of the problems of rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan begin here at home. And we’ll head to Baghdad to take a look at how US military and civilian teams have made a course correction that could help to stabilize Iraq. We also take a look back at the lessons learned and the lessons forgotten of past US efforts to help reconstruct broken nations after war.

Available now in Content Depot.

Complete description at: americaabroadmedia.org

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