This travelogue is just one part of my dispatches from Erbil. You can read them all on the project’s landing page here. Sunday through Tuesday — Sept. 8-10, 2024 Breakfast at the Classy Hotel Ankawa is an excellent place for people watching. It quickly became part of my morning routine. I would wake up, get […]
Rose Gilbert, General Assignment Reporter
Rose Gilbert is WPLN's general assignment reporter and a founding producer of This Is Nashville. Rose grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and Montespertoli, Italy. She comes to WPLN from a reporting internship at The Tennessean. In 2020, she was senior producer for the USA TODAY podcast “Changing the Game.” During college, she worked for The Daily Princetonian, and interned with NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley in Paris. She studied international and public affairs at Princeton University, and received a master’s from Columbia Journalism School in 2021. Rose speaks English, Italian, and French. When she's not reporting, she enjoys visiting museums and checking out the local music scene.
Welcome to the Classy Hotel Ankawa
In this first travelogue from WPLN’s Rose Gilbert, we arrive with her in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, for her five-week reporting trip.
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