While I was away on an extended reporting trip last year, he downloaded Kazaa onto the computer in his room.

Lots of Americans are, of course, but a recent reporting trip surprised me with how intense the topic of texting has become.

We had been taken hostage on a reporting trip south of Kabul, Afghanistan, in November 2008 and moved to Pakistan's tribal areas.

On a recent reporting trip to Ghana, I sought out some of my old favorites and discovered some new ones.

Didn't I already have the right tablecloth, hand-embroidered with politically incorrect peasants and bought on a reporting trip to Hanoi a dozen years ago?

On a reporting trip to Chicago many years back, I was told that locally, this practice even had a name.

Interviews conducted during an 18-day reporting trip just completed in Saudi Arabia suggest that average Saudis seem caught between competing desires.

Is it inconceivable that my own life experience might contribute to the success of the reporting trip?

"I'd come home a few years ago after a long reporting trip in India and I realized our home didn't feel like home," she said.

Earlier this year, I held a "win-a-trip contest" to choose a student and a teacher to take with me on a reporting trip to Africa.