Foreign Correspondence – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Elon Musk incited the troll hordes upon Emily Glazer. Not only did she live to tell the tale, she went on to write bombshell stories on Musk's drug use. Talk about not pulling your punches. Glazer, who reports on power and influence at the Wall Street Journal, talks about her roller coaster career and how she manages to produce so many big stories.

Countries featured: United States, Mexico

Publications featured: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, Austin American Statesmen

Here are links to some of the things we talked about: 

Emily's Daily Northwestern story on female professors' tenure - https://bit.ly/4hriAgD 

The Facebook Files - https://bit.ly/4hfAF0I 

Her first story on Elon Musk's drug use - https://bit.ly/3UhA9Wj 

Her story on Barclays CEO's Jeffrey Epstein links - https://bit.ly/4fdyHvZ 

Popular Information newsletter - https://bit.ly/3YdHUh5 

Empire of Pain - https://bit.ly/3BSzIve 

Her story on drug money in Arizona - https://bit.ly/3YtsqqF 

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Humo: Murder and Silence in El Salvador connects a gruesome story of mass murder in El Salvador to a larger shift in the country's society with the election of Nayib Bukele. Daniel Alvarenga (@pipianspice), host of the English-language version of the podcast, brings years of experience reporting on El Salvador as well as his experience as a Salvedorean-American to the show. He discusses his backdoor route into journalism, years spent making viral news videos and his struggles to make a career of telling Central American stories.

Countries featured: USA, El Salvador, Honduras

Publications featured: Al Jazeera (AJ+), Telemundo, KCSB, Rolling Stone

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Humo podcast - https://bit.ly/3y8tEgM 

Newsbroke on AJ+ - https://bit.ly/4c97nxn 

His mini doc Why Are Indigenous People Dying at the Border -  https://bit.ly/3LyDKKM 

His mini doc Why So Many Palestinians Live in El Salvador - https://bit.ly/3YeFKQ8 

Bryan Avelar on X - https://x.com/bavelarr

Revista Factum - https://www.revistafactum.com/

Atmos Magazine - https://atmos.earth/

Atmos article on El Salvador - https://bit.ly/3zPUfQ1 

Atmos story on Congo cobalt - https://bit.ly/3xX3EVB 

60 Songs that Explain the 90s podcast - https://bit.ly/46iTUl1 

Locatora Radio episode on protest dad - https://bit.ly/4d7fM56 

Menudo: Forever Young docuseries - https://bit.ly/4d831Hw 

The book News for All the People - https://bit.ly/3SilzwV 

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Climate change reporting often means documenting some of the worst events that ever happen to people. But Kendra Pierre-Louis (@kendrawrites), whether reporting for the podcast How to Save the Planet, or posting pictures of bear sex, manages to make it not totally depressing. Kendra, an independent climate reporter, talks about gradually finding her way into journalism, reporting in India and Myanmar, and her years at NYT.

Countries featured: USA, India, Myanmar

Publications featured: Spotify/Gimlet's How to Save the Planet, The New York Times, Popular Science, Inside Climate News, Sierra, Hakai, Newsweek, 538, Modern Farmer, Vice

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Kendra's book Green Washed - bit.ly/3ZZKbvz

Erica Gies website - bit.ly/402jGWC

Kendra's story in India for 538 - bit.ly/3J7JqK5

Her story on Myanmar for Earth Island Journal - bit.ly/3YFB3v9

Her viral visual essay on the U.S. before EPA cleanup - bit.ly/3yvlVpl

How to Save the Planet episode on biking - bit.ly/3ysEtXz

Podcast episode on agrovoltaics - bit.ly/3ZXb978

ProPublica story on UnitedHealthcare - bit.ly/3LkVoTo 

Her anti-mayonnaise screed - bit.ly/3yxe376

Her story on the Myanmar bus ride - bit.ly/3ZXqhRW

The Girls in the Balcony book - bit.ly/3ysEMBH

Buried by the Times book - bit.ly/3ZXql48

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The day the war broke out in Ukraine, Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEinNYT) was in Kiev unsure of what was about to happen. Only a few months into working for The New York Times, she was at the center of the biggest story in the world. She now reports on the war as one of a dwindling number foreign correspondents in Russia, interviewing Russians who see the conflict in very different terms than the rest of the world. We also discuss her many years reporting across the Balkans.

Countries featured: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Russia

Publications featured: Financial Times, New York Times, The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Reuters

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Rubix cube inventor's Lunch with the FT - https://bit.ly/3YphHeb

Valerie's story about Ukrainians' Russian relatives not believing in war - http://bit.ly/3XKRKWv

Valerie on The Daily podcast on the Russian draft office - http://bit.ly/3XQwSgo

Her story Where have all the men in Moscow gone? - http://bit.ly/40aCjs5

Nanna Heitmann's Instagram - https://bit.ly/3Juo6Ax

Novaya Gazeta - http://bit.ly/40aVXnR

Holod - http://bit.ly/3JqolMW

Josh Yaffa's story on rape victims in Ukraine - http://bit.ly/3RiaWbB

Sigrid Schultz wikipedia - http://bit.ly/3Ha71Je

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - https://bit.ly/3Ri0VLw

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A chance meeting with some French journalists in a New Delhi park led Will Brown (@_Will_Brown) to quit his job as a teacher to become a reporter. After freelancing doesn't work out, he finds himself back in London working at The Economist, eventually being dispatched as a stringer to Senegal. He also talks about covering the outbreak of the Tigray War from the Sudan-Ethiopia border as Africa Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph.

Countries featured: India, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia, Guinea, Sudan, DR Congo, UK

Publications featured: The Times of London, The Economist, Daily Telegraph

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

His Vice story on Indian brothels - bit.ly/3Br1snE

Economist story on Guinea bauxite mining - bit.ly/3Ppzs9S

His story on Russian mercenaries in the Sahel - https://bit.ly/3PiDaBY

His story on Sudan's revolution - https://bit.ly/3WdFMmK

His story on Ethiopians fleeing Tigray war - bit.ly/3FhfIR3

His story with nurse leaving patients behind - bit.ly/3FIudP9

BBC Africa Eye - bit.ly/3hkI2Ks

HumAngle - https://bit.ly/3WaAxnW

Manisha Ganguly's doc on Libya drone strikes - https://bit.ly/3WaicY6

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The Society of News Design's best designer in the world, Marco Hernandez (@TmarcoH) tells us how he grew up in Costa Rican coffee country and has been recruited to a series of jobs that took him around the world. Ever humble, he also talks about how he likes to draw insects to relax and maintains a website dedicated to his failed projects.

Countries featured: Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Singapore, USA

Publications featured: La Nacion, South China Morning Post, Reuters, New York Times

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Marco's story on the bombed bridge in Ukraine - 

His Forbidden City project for SCMP - https://bit.ly/3h7xFcd

More on the Forbidden City that didn't make the original project - https://bit.ly/3E4UEOe

His story on how Hong Kong protestors organized - https://tmsnrt.rs/3FPs5Ww

His story on counting crowd at HK protests - https://tmsnrt.rs/3FK3Jxe 

His story on an iceberg larger than some countries - https://tmsnrt.rs/3zHwiYn

His winning entry for Society of News Design - https://bit.ly/3FW0hzs

His website for failed projects - https://bit.ly/3U1wjyp

The Pudding - https://bit.ly/3E5kXEb

NASA Earth Observatory - https://go.nasa.gov/3U96Y5L

Washington Post story on butterflies - https://wapo.st/3tksskt

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The kidnapped Chibok girls were the identifiable victims of Nigeria's war with Boko Haram islamist insurgents. Drew Hinshaw (@drewhinshaw) talks about reporting around Europe and Africa for the Wall Street Journal while co-writing an award-winning book about the Chibok girls on nights and weekends. We also find out what happens when you wear the wrong pants to cover a press conference with Barack Obama.

Countries featured: Ghana, Nigeria, Poland, Senegal, Mali, Spain, USA

Publications featured: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Metro, Rolling Stone

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Drew's book Bring Back Our Girls - https://amzn.to/3E7H1OI 

His stories for The Wall Street Journal - https://on.wsj.com/3Cnhgsw

His big WSJ story on Chibok girls being freed - https://on.wsj.com/3SOzOap

WSJ's Pulitzer finalist package on China's influence - https://bit.ly/3LWl6fj

Drew's story on Gadhafi's house - https://on.wsj.com/3RnHbEN

Rukmini Callimachi's al-Qaida Papers series for AP - https://bit.ly/3dT058V

Steve Rosenberg's Lukashenko interview - https://bit.ly/3FNDoeW

Hidden Valley Road book - https://amzn.to/3SSv7wp

Columbine book by Dave Cullen - https://amzn.to/3ft3ag1

Billion Dollar Whale book - https://amzn.to/3ro1cjL

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Russia invaded Ukraine and the next day Thomas Peter was crossing the border from Poland to cover the war. Tom, a Reuters photographer, thought he understood Russia after spending his 20s living in the country. But little could prepare him for the indiscriminate brutality he saw there. He’ll also talk about his childhood in Soviet East Germany, covering the early days of COVID-19 near its epicenter in China and spending a week in a Japanese jail.

Countries featured: Germany, UK, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, China

Publications featured: Reuters

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Tom’s Wider Image page - https://reut.rs/3Qhnf5E

His Instagram account - https://bit.ly/3RhWHTo

His story about Russian protest group Voina - https://reut.rs/3RmVrhW

His photos of Russian tightrope walkers - https://reut.rs/3KK18Ui

His photos of Chinese escaping COVID-19 epicenter - https://reut.rs/3Ba060U

Some of his Ukraine photos - https://bit.ly/3TRL4UW

His photo essay on chaotic Hong Kong protests - https://reut.rs/3RhZsUK

His Wider Image on young Hong Kong democrats - https://reut.rs/3KOsg4D

His photo essay on economic pressures in Hong Kong - https://reut.rs/3RyOxFN

His Wider Image on Mongolian reindeer herders - https://reut.rs/3Rwmqag

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Turns out Russian mercenaries stand ready to troll journalists and produce big-budget action movies in war-torn African countries. Neil Munshi, West Africa Editor now for Bloomberg, went to the Central African Republic to report on that mercenary group, while writing an award-winning series of stories seeking to explain the conflicts raging in most of the countries in the region. 

Countries featured: Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Mali, India, USA, Nepal

Publications featured: GQ, Times of India, GQ India, Financial Times, Bloomberg

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Neil’s award winning series on West Africa (free to read) - https://bit.ly/3pdXsAx

His story about a film glorifying mercenaries - https://on.ft.com/3phIfOJ

F1 Drive to Survive doc series trailer - https://bit.ly/3Poug4q

Zikoko’s NairaLife - https://bit.ly/3Qjq07s

The Journalist and the Murderer - https://bit.ly/3QuHIVS

What It’s Like to Fight a Megafire in New Yorker - https://bit.ly/3dsN84S

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo - https://bit.ly/3QrOiwi

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In this additional bonus content, Jon Lee Anderson talks about what has gone wrong with democracy in Latin America and discusses what it's like to work for the hallowed magazine The New Yorker.

Jon Lee's story about Chilean President - https://bit.ly/3ukSKE5

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