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Jesse Hyde

Jesse Hyde is the assistant editor of the enterprise team. He graduated from Brigham Young University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a finalist for the Livingston Award and the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism.

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Recent Articles by Jesse Hyde

Building hope: How the LDS Church is helping thousands fleeing war and drought

Published: Monday, April 16, 2012 12:00 am MDT

Amina is one of 400,000 people who have fled Somalia in the past year in response to the worst famine in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.

Praying for rain: Sustainable strategies deliver water, hope to East Africa

Published: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:00 am MDT

The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years and Abdulahi Muse is on the front lines of fighting it.

Forest for the future — Mormon program brings Guatemalan families efficient ovens to help save trees

Published: Monday, July 11, 2011 12:00 am MDT

The LDS Church partners with the Maya Relief Foundation to bring hundreds of high efficiency, low cost stoves to rural Guatemala. The effort is helping to slow deforestation and improve lives and health.

LDS Church helps as Guatemalans bring water, education to their village

Published: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:00 am MDT

It is still dark when the woman rises from her bed, slips her callused feet into her flimsy pink flip flops, and begins the long walk for water. Already, the damp air smells of cooking fires, and before long, t...

Decisive win sends Mike Lee to Senate

Published: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 12:00 am MDT

A few hours before he would become the next senator from the state of Utah, Mike Lee stood in a hotel room in downtown Salt Lake, anxiously awaiting what felt like an inevitable coronation.