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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Have Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama read your book? Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker can say that they have. Jon Lee tells us about his early years chronicling rebel groups and insurgents from Latin America to Asia, culminating in writing a book about the quintessential guerrilla Che Guavara. Working for The New Yorker, he has gotten to know many world leaders more intimately than most any living journalist.

Countries featured: Peru, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia

Publications featured: Time magazine, New York Times, New Yorker

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

Jon Lee’s work for The New Yorker - https://bit.ly/3R5pJpz

His book about guerrillas - https://amzn.to/3yfGrtC

His book about Che Guavara - https://amzn.to/3OH52hY

His first story for The New Yorker on Cuba - https://bit.ly/3P0JT20

His story about Hugo Chavez - https://bit.ly/2VVD0Zu

NYTimes story on Haiti reparations - https://nyti.ms/3NHRXng

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The open ocean is about as foreign as it gets. No country can claim it. And as a result, a whole lot of bad stuff happens there. Ian Urbina (@ian_urbina) talks about his series of stories for The New York Times about lawlessness at sea, that later became a book and now a non-profit journalism initiative called The Outlaw Ocean Project. Urbina will also talk about how his stories were made into two Hollywood movies and how he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer for reporting on the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.

Countries featured: Libya, USA, Singapore

Publications featured: New York Times, New Yorker

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

The Outlaw Ocean Project website - https://bit.ly/3NVRkac

Ian’s series on fracking Drilling Down - https://nyti.ms/3tfSN3e

His piece on magazine crews that inspired American Honey - https://nyti.ms/3xaFQca

The Pulitzer Prize winning reporting on Eliot Spitzer - https://bit.ly/3zeN9Ct

His book Outlaw Ocean - https://amzn.to/3zeJFji

His New Yorker piece on Libya - https://bit.ly/38PFcc5

Behind the scenes on reporting the Libya piece - https://bit.ly/3aHLkDR

Jennifer Senior’s 9/11 piece for the Atlantic - https://bit.ly/39YDVMT

Luke Mogelson’s article Among the Insurrectionists - https://bit.ly/3alcd05

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“If someone were going to make this story into a movie, I want to hear about the scenes that would be in it.” Notable scenes of Jen Wieczner's career include commuting from Boston to New York while juggling a juice bar job and a journalism internship, scrambling for interviews in Japan, and attending the Goldman Sachs CEO's late night DJ set. Now a features writer at New York Magazine, she discusses how she approaches long-form stories on finance and other topics.

Countries featured: United States, Japan

Publications featured: Fast Company, Marie Claire, Smart Money, Market Watch, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, New York Magazine

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

Jen's profile of an abrasive chess master - https://bit.ly/3Xk1nOq 

Her story Why Your Boss is Dumping Your Wife - https://bit.ly/4c36wPd 

Her profile of Mylan's CEO Heather Bresch - https://bit.ly/4blkawh 

Her profile of Steve Cohen's return to hedge funds - https://bit.ly/4elwI9n 

Her story on How High Can Bitcoing Go - https://bit.ly/4eADdWa 

Her story The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars - https://bit.ly/3XrnXou 

Her story about nannies in NYC - https://bit.ly/4eqNSTe 

The Atlantic article Bill Ackman Is a Brilliant Fictional Character - https://bit.ly/3VGzkYe 

Reeve's Wiedeman's book on WeWork - https://bit.ly/4aZMxQk 

Jen's story on Mt. Gox in Japan - https://bit.ly/3Vpxmds 

Her Fortune profile of the Goldman Sachs CEO - https://bit.ly/3VoC37b 

Her NYMag profile of the Goldman Sachs CEO - https://bit.ly/3VHDJKy 

New York Post cover on the Oculus leaking - https://tinyurl.com/36dpkc27 

New York Daily News cover on the Oculus leaking - https://images.app.goo.gl/3dP4hzYhBeDJLu3p6

Matt Levine's Bloomberg newsletter - https://tinyurl.com/mxyvmmuk 

Patrick Radden Keefe's profile of Larry Gagosian - https://tinyurl.com/hukku73u 

Jessica Pressler on Wikipedia - https://tinyurl.com/yeyjwsdt 

The movie She Said on IMDb - https://tinyurl.com/3shuv74z 

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History matters to Julie McCarthy (@JulieMcCarthyJM). She’s gone around the world with National Public Radio to Tokyo, London, Rio de Janeiro, Jerusalem, Islamabad, New Delhi and Manila, trying to understand each place through its history. Her reporting brings to life events like the Hiroshima bombing and the partition of India, explaining how they continue to reverberate today. Most recently she’s served in Manila and the U.S. as NPR’s Southeast Asia Correspondent.

Countries featured: The Philippines, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Japan, Israel, UK

Publications featured: National Public Radio

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

Julie’s story on the partition of India - https://n.pr/3OS4kzc

Her story on Filipino comfort women - https://n.pr/3s2j2ty

Nikkei Asia - https://s.nikkei.com/38CZFAi

The novel The Splendid and the Vile - https://amzn.to/3vvqqQh

The book Empire of Pain - https://amzn.to/3ON83Oa

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Little Uruguay, we don’t hear from many correspondents based there. Lucinda Elliott (@lucinda_elliott) - who covers South America's Southern Cone of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay for the Financial Times - tells us how she ended up there in the middle of the pandemic. That’s just one way Lucinda has come full circle, having also been laid off by the FT at the start of her career, only to return after freelancing in Venezuela and Brazil. 

Countries featured: UK, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, French Guiana

Publications featured: Times of London, Monocle, Financial Times

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

Jake's Overseas Press Club winning stories - https://reut.rs/3w0b0Se

https://reut.rs/3DdVE0l

https://tmsnrt.rs/37Xr67v

Richard Beeston Bursary for aspiring foreign correspondents - https://bit.ly/3KmLxcg

Lucinda's story on maternity ward in Venezuela - https://bit.ly/3JEcA2y

Her interview with Lula for Monocle - https://bit.ly/3LerCwk

Stories of Our Times on Apple podcasts - https://apple.co/3Lled5U

El Observador article on China Zorrilla - https://bit.ly/3qFoWzU

Avantika Chilkoti on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3tDhE1z

Hella Pick's 90th birthday article for Conde Nast Traveler - https://bit.ly/3tJoAKO

Lucinda's reporting from French Guiana for Monocle - https://bit.ly/3wFeCvz

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The foreign country in this episode is the United States. Guga Chacra, a Brazilian journalist based in New York City, is one of the most recognizable faces of Brazilian TV news. With his signature shaggy hair and a legion of Twitter followers, he is known for his work with Globo TV, the 24 hour news channel Globo News, his column for newspaper O Globo and his radio show on CBN. Before he was a one-man media empire, Guga was a newspaper reporter covering the Middle East, Haiti and Argentina.

Countries featured: Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, USA, Brazil, Argentine

Publications featured: Folha de S.Paulo, O Estado de S.Paulo, O Globo, Globo News, Globo TV, CBN

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

Guga’s column for O Globo - https://glo.bo/3vBxScY

His CBN radio show - https://glo.bo/3hA04Vh

His interview with Bashar Al-Assad - https://bit.ly/35PmKOH

L’Orient-Le Jour - https://bit.ly/35MD6YG

Haaretz - https://bit.ly/3K9DvmA

The Times of Israel - https://bit.ly/3MihFiO

Jerusalem post - https://bit.ly/3vCQcCK

Al Monitor - https://bit.ly/3hzHRaD

Inside the Fall of Kabul by Matthieu Aikins - https://nyti.ms/3vAW6UC

Robert Fisk’s book Pity the Nation - https://amzn.to/3IIZtfY

House of Stone by Anthony Shadid - https://amzn.to/3ibyMWy

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Reporting the Arab Spring is the story of a lifetime. Evan Hill (@evanhill) tells us how a blog got him hired by Al Jazeera in the Middle East where he was sent to cover the Arab Spring, witnessing the Egyptian Revolution first hand from Tahrir Square. He discusses almost quitting journalism, only to later join the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times visual investigations team.

Countries featured: Qatar, Egypt, Libya, Syria, USA

Publications featured: Al Jazeera English, The Times of London, The New York Times

Evan discusses starting a blog that gets him hired by Al Jazeera (10:55), the unexpected eruption of the Arab Spring that sees him dispatched to Egypt (23:15), a close call on safety while covering Libya (32:58), being beaten while trying to cover a protest in Egypt (37:39), moving back to the U.S. with Al Jazeera before leaving journalism for Human Rights Watch (46:45), joining The New York Times (1:00:50), his story that got away about a white anarchist on the No Fly List (1:03:50), his story on Russia bombing hospitals in Syria that was part of a Pulitzer-winning package and how the visual investigations team works (1:07:06), and the lightning round (1:21:55).

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

Evan’s story on Russia bombing Syrian hospitals - https://nyti.ms/3skkabd

Visual investigation on Jan. 6 Capitol riot - https://nyti.ms/35FXWIX

Bellingcat - https://bit.ly/3viBopy

Washington Post Visual Forensics - https://wapo.st/3GtyUK0

Blowback podcast - https://bit.ly/3J9O1tx

ProPublica’s What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol - https://bit.ly/3GHWQtj

Lawrence Wright on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3rwmUDj

Anthony Loyd’s book My War Gone By, I Miss It So - https://amzn.to/3AZHbEh

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What drew so much media attention to Venezuela only a few years ago and why has it fizzled out? Stephen Gibbs (@STHGIbbs), a freelancer based in Caracas, tells us about covering the unrest and his encounters with Hugo Chavez and Maduro. As a former longtime BBC correspondent, Gibbs also talks about covering Cuba - including Castro revealing his relationship with Ernest Hemingway and a chance meeting with a rogue CIA agent.

Countries featured: United Kingdom, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Venezuela

Publications featured: BBC, The Times (of London), The Economist, CGTN

Stephen discusses getting his start writing gossip items and producing news for children (8:36), making the jump to producing the nightly news at the BBC and transitioning to on-camera newsman in Cuba (15:35), meeting Fidel Castro at an event about Ernest Hemingway (23:34), Cuba revoking his media accreditation (28:11), moving to Mexico and covering swine flu there (35:15), going freelance and moving to Brazil and Venezuela (41:36), being in the middle of turbulent Venezuelan politics while juggling assignments from three publications (46:30), a story that got away about a fugitive former CIA agent living in Cuba (55:25), covering the coup that ousted Haiti’s president in 2004 (1:00:20) and finally the lightning round (1:08:20).

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

Stephen’s documentary on Easter Island - https://bit.ly/3zgJT7n

Observer article on fugitive CIA agent - https://bit.ly/32JORO9

Stephen’s interview with Brazil’s Bolsonaro - https://bit.ly/3sQQC6W

Private Eye - https://bit.ly/3qCYQNb

BBC interview with Belarus leader Lukashenko - https://bit.ly/3FNDoeW

Harry’s Garage - https://bit.ly/3eGc4mL

Allen Whicker interviews dictator Papa Doc - https://bit.ly/3zdLRpe

The Quiet American book - https://amzn.to/3mNh6m7

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Writing a book isn’t easy, but James Griffiths (@jgriffiths) of Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail sure makes it look that way. Griffiths talks about getting his start in journalism in Shanghai and Hong Kong just as the Chinese government was ratcheting up censorship of the internet. That became the subject of his first book, which he wrote while also covering years of protests in Hong Kong. He also discusses his new book on efforts to preserve minority languages, like Hawaiian and Welsh.

Countries featured: China, Wales, USA

Publications featured: CNN, South China Morning Post, The Shanghaiist, That’s Shanghai, The Globe and Mail

James discusses moving from the UK to China to get his start at the blog The Shanghaiist (9:48), moving to Hong Kong to join the South China Morning Post and covering the Umbrella Movement (14:56), joining CNN where he covered the larger 2019 Hong Kong protests (22:14), a traumatic moment when protestors turned on each other at the Hong Kong airport (30:13), joining the Globe and Mail (34:08), the difficult reporting environment in Mainland China (40:09), advice on not waiting for permission to go do reporting (45:36), how he wrote his two books and the impact on his life (48:23) and finally the lightning round (1:03:25).

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

Covering Climate Now awards featuring Jake’s work - https://bit.ly/3dn3glk

James’ first book The Great Firewall of China on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3DjRiTP

His second book Speak Not on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3pkKuAw

A review of Speak Not - https://tgam.ca/3EolTBe

The Global Times in English - https://bit.ly/3GinQ2H

Today in Tabs newsletter - https://bit.ly/32PU9Y8

Vittles newsletter - https://bit.ly/3In6NhN

The story of Henry the Vacuum Cleaner - https://bit.ly/3xSihoF

Ariel Sabar’s book Veritas  - https://amzn.to/2ZVcfa5

Pam Colloff’s The Innocent Man in Texas Monthly - https://bit.ly/3dh0PAG

Kathy Gannon’s book I is for Infidel - https://amzn.to/3GcjdqK

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Mitch Moxley (@mitch_moxley) talks about the world of book writing, agents and getting your magazine stories optioned by Hollywood.

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

Mitch's Rent a White Guy story for The Atlantic - https://bit.ly/39YlbwO

His book Apologies to My Censors - https://amzn.to/3B64BqR

His true crime story Knives Outback - https://bit.ly/3opBATu

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Going viral. North Korea. Anthony Bourdain. Beijing Olympics. Long-form magazine journalism. Narrative non-fiction. Stage plays. Executive editor at Maxim. Mitch Moxley has done a lot of stuff. As a magazine editor and freelance writer, previously in China and now in New York City, Mitch tells us about his careers highs and disappointments, as well as the brutal realities of being a freelancer.

Countries featured: Canada, China, North Korea, USA

Publications featured: GQ, China Daily, Truly Adventurous, The Atlantic, Maxim, Penta

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

Penta magazine - https://bit.ly/3mmK7nl

Mitch's story on Agent Orange survivors - https://bit.ly/3mnhsyA

His Rent a White Guy story for The Atlantic - https://bit.ly/39YlbwO

His book Apologies to My Censors - https://amzn.to/3B64BqR

His story Rat Hunters of New York - https://bit.ly/3uxVHjr

His story about Anthony Bourdain for Maxim - https://bit.ly/3oqfLD9

His play inspired by Bourdain - https://bit.ly/2WBA3hJ

His story on the North Korean film festival for GQ - https://bit.ly/2Yawxvc

Jennifer Senior's piece on a family grieving a 9/11 victim - https://bit.ly/39YDVMT

His story about kidnapping survival schools - https://bit.ly/2YdVmGh

The movie The Paper on IMDb - https://imdb.to/3FdJ55J

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The journalist’s holy trinity: the right time, the right place, the right beat. You’re lucky if you find it once in your career. Sue-Lin Wong (@suelinwong) tells how she thinks she hit it in the Hong Kong protests in 2019. Now working as a China correspondent for The Economist based in Hong Kong, she also has the unusual distinction of having been based in Shenzhen for years.

Countries featured: China, North Korea, Australia

Publications featured: Reuters, Financial Times, Economist

Sue-Lin discusses taking a gap year to teach English at a sketchy school in China (6:04), taking three years off from university to live in China and the US (10:11), joining Reuters with Jake as a trainee (21:20), becoming a Reuters correspondent in Shenzhen in southern China and quickly joining the FT (34:55), covering the Hong Kong protests (41:38), joining The Economist (46:50), a story that got away about an alleged rape (54:37), following a Chinese student protest and the dystopian crackdown on it (1:00:09), and finally the lightning round (1:14:30).

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

Sue-Lin's FT Magazine story on the HK protests - https://on.ft.com/3zQCPNL

Her stories on Chinese student protestors -

https://reut.rs/3CJXm8u

https://reut.rs/3zzyFtm

https://reut.rs/3kDwKzy

Her series of stories on the North Korean border - https://reut.rs/3kEqx6q

端傳媒Initium Media - https://bit.ly/2XW82lz

The Ezra Klein show - https://apple.co/3i72Kuf

故事fm (storyfm) - https://bit.ly/3CKYRmU

Megan Twohey on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3lVRUIO

Jodi Kantor on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3zF1Mvl

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell wiki - https://bit.ly/3i4TYx8

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Financial journalists don’t get the respect they deserve. Scottish journalist Jamie McGeever (@ReutersJamie) has traveled the world covering financial markets, including NYC, London, Madrid and all over Brazil and Europe. His work at Reuters put him at the center of the chaos of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Also discussed: bullfighting, Celtic football and the most charming world leaders.

Countries featured: Brazil, Scotland, England, Spain, USA

Publications featured: Dow Jones, Reuters

Jamie discusses moving from his native Scotland to Brazil to teach English out of university (5:53), bullfighting and Ernest Hemingway (8:28), being thrown in the deep end of journalist at the Dow Jones news wire in Rio de Janeiro (14:02), an extremely rapid succession of jobs and moves that eventually take him to Reuters and Wall Street (19:49), the 2008 financial crisis as the story of a lifetime (27:25), why he's such a big deal on Twitter (36:56), his stint in TV news (43:51), switching from the news side to being a columnist (56:21), a story that got away about possible financial wrongdoing (1:01:40) and finally the lightning round(1:05:30).

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

Jamie's Reuters columns - https://reut.rs/3noQGrL

Toros Twitter account - https://bit.ly/2XgBGBI

Daniel Dale on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3A6F00i

John King on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3hpsIca

Clarissa Ward on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3EcelSb

The Football Men documentary part 1 - https://bit.ly/3hl4u2z

The Thick of It on IMDb - https://imdb.to/3ntqNHl

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"To tab. Verb. To rewrite a news article in a tabloid-style." We learn a new word in this episode of the podcast from Sean Collins Walsh, a City Hall reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Sean looks back on his first job at the tabloid Philadelphia Daily News and a career that has landed him reporting back in his hometown of Philly.

Countries featured: USA, Uganda

Publications featured: Philadelphia Daily News, Austin American-Statesmen, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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

The first FoCo episode - https://bit.ly/44qOJyC 

The Toner Prize - https://bit.ly/44lRQIb 

Sean's story on the ethics board probe into Jeff Brown - https://bit.ly/44wjlPd 

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Abdi Latif Dahir, The New York Times' East Africa Correspondent, talks more in-depth about his coverage of Rwanda and shares a special moment reporting in Mogadishu. This is a bonus content from FoCo's interview with Abdi. For the full interview, please check out episode 54.

Note: Apologies that this is not the usually scheduled full episode that I normally release twice monthly. I will return to our normal programming in a couple of weeks.

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

Abdi's jail house interview with Paul Rusesabagina - https://nyti.ms/2VnhIUu

His main story on Paul Rusesabagina - https://nyti.ms/3rIYHb6

His story on artists in Mogadishu - https://bit.ly/3j4ZpNj

The book spawned from the above article - https://amzn.to/3z5g20J

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The long road to a Pulitzer. Now a Mexico-based reporter for Vice, Emily Green (@emilytgreen) has had a couple career booms and busts. The WSJ job that doesn't pan out leads her into radio reporting. The pandemic leads her to flee Mexico. But you never know, maybe you'll be sitting in your childhood bedroom and feeling sorry for yourself, when you get that call about the big award. 

Countries featured: Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Philippines, USA

Publications featured: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, PRI’s The World, The Daily Beast, Vice News

Emily discusses going to the Philippines on a Fulbright grant after college (5:00), the wrong job at WSJ leads to working in hometown radio then Sacramento then the SF Chronicle (12:21), moving to Mexico to freelance (19:57), some lessons for freelancers (27:18), how a Vice story on a migrant kidnapping in Mexico led to an NPR piece that won a Pulitzer (34:00), a couple of stories that got away (47:35), a short doc for Vice on the massacre of migrants in Mexico after they were deported from the U.S. (50:24) and the lightning round (58:20).

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

Emily's WaPo story on a Filipino judge - https://wapo.st/3sdDTsC

Her first story in Vice on the migrant caravan - https://bit.ly/3iK85bF

Her original story on Nuevo Laredo kidnapping for Vice - https://bit.ly/3AL64Cr

Her Pulitzer winning audio story -  https://bit.ly/3AF5Dt3

Pulitzer winner page for the story - https://bit.ly/2UgJOR7

Her Vice doc on Guatemalan deportees killed in Mexico - https://bit.ly/37IVXkQ

Day X podcast - https://nyti.ms/3lWTDzc

Lisa Hagen's podcast on guns - https://n.pr/2UftUGG

Jon Lee Anderson's ride along with Chavez - https://bit.ly/2VVD0Zu

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Childhood journals lead to journalism. Abdi Latif Dahir (@Lattif) started journaling as a way to process the violence around him when, at 8 years old, his family returned to Somalia from Kenya. He tells us how that experience influences his reporting on conflicts as East Africa Correspondent for The New York Times. He also talks about his reporting on the recent arrest of the man portrayed in Hotel Rwanda, as well as his passion for running.

Countries featured: Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Rwanda, USA

Publications featured: Quartz, UPI, The Daily Nation, The New York Times

Abdi talks about growing up in Mogadishu (7:17), moving back to Kenya for university and to get his start in journalism (15:40), why his parents moved from peaceful Kenya to war-torn Somalia and how it influences his reporting on conflicts (31:36), going to Columbia J-school and working for Quartz (41:45), getting hired for a dream job at The New York Times (50:53), a profile that Abdi wasn't able to do after the death of the subject (56:14), his reporting on the arrest of Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina (1:05:32) and finally the lightning round (1:15:00).

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

Abdi's story on the death of a Somali entrepreneur - https://bit.ly/3li0FhG

His interview with Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina in jail - https://nyti.ms/2VnhIUu

His full story about Rusesabagina - https://nyti.ms/3rIYHb6

The China Africa Project - https://bit.ly/3lhjmSz

The Continent - https://bit.ly/3ie3UEM

Nipe Story podcast - https://apple.co/3xg35zF

CBC's Writers and Company podcast - https://apple.co/2VkEk87

Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained for - https://nyti.ms/2WHY724

House of Stone by Anthony Shadid - https://amzn.to/3ibyMWy

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An Editor-at-Large is not someone who is wanted for arrest by the police for crimes against journalism. Bryan Curtis (@bryancurtis) fills us in on what it means to be an Editor-at-Large for The Ringer, which includes hosting the popular media analysis podcast The Press Box.

Countries featured: USA

Publications featured: Nightline, The New Republic, Slate, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, Grantland, The Ringer

Bryan discusses how he started writing about sports in middle school upon realizing he’d never be a pro athlete (5:40), early internships at Nightline and The New Republic plus a first job at Slate (11:17), a huge opportunity at an ill-fated New York Times sports magazine (18:52), Tina Brown scoops him up for the launch of The Daily Beast (22:28), getting in on the ground level of Grantland and The Ringer (27:17), whether he is a “sports journalist” (35:17), how he started The Press Box podcast (38:00), his story on why the Oklahoma City Thunder players were so combative with reporters (48:30) and the lightning round featuring George Lucas (54:45).

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

Bryan’s “The Old Guy’s Still Got It” story - https://bit.ly/2Up4aI3

His story on the OKC Thunder vs the media - https://bit.ly/3wMO1t5

BBC’s In Our Time podcast - https://apple.co/3irZt8u

Tom Junod’s “The Hero of Goodall Park” - https://es.pn/3z8zfyf

Bryan’s profile of George Lucas - https://nyti.ms/3etDrkp

Broadcast News on IMDb - https://imdb.to/3z951Lz

Humphrey Bogart’s Deadline U.S.A. on IMDb - https://imdb.to/3xPEt1E

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Patrick St. Michel (@mbmelodies) isn’t a professional foreigner, he just plays one on TV. As a freelance music and pop culture journalist, Patrick will take us inside the world of J Pop, K Pop, Japanese baseball and convenience store food. And yes, he’s willing to go see your band play in Thailand on less than 24 hours notice.

Countries featured: Japan, USA, Thailand, South Korea

Publications featured: The Japan Times, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Make Believe Melodies

Patrick discusses growing up in a town with more horses than people (6:13), founding the publication North by Northwestern in college (12:25), moving to Japan to teach English in a small town (22:52), starting a blog about Japanese music and breaking into journalism (31:04), the promise and peril of writing "Weird Japan" articles (43:28), his "story that got away" seeking to profile a Korean musician trying to become a crossover star (49:07), his profile of Japanese music legend Mariya Takeuchi (56:54), and finally the lightning round (1:03:31) featuring an unexpected trip to Thailand (1:09:27) and Japanese baseball (1:19:11).

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

Make Believe Melodies blog archive - https://bit.ly/3xgzhDQ

Bagel heads - https://bit.ly/3ycgJom

Patrick's Atlantic story on "Weird Japan" - https://bit.ly/3hALRaa

New Republic dissection of New Yorker's failed Weird Japan article - https://bit.ly/3hb6afA

Patrick's story on Korean Pop conquering Japan - https://bit.ly/3AoZWjQ

CL on wikipedia - https://bit.ly/2Umto9w

Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi - https://bit.ly/3xfFHmx

Patrick's profile of Takeuchi - https://bit.ly/2V52weF

Japan Times' Recultured podcast - https://bit.ly/3xfgby0

Dough Boys podcast - https://apple.co/3jFqgA5

The Atlantic's The War on Bollywood - https://bit.ly/3ym6OfS

Patrick's story about the band Slot Machine - https://bit.ly/3hy1XBB

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"Welcome to China, where nothing is allowed but everything is possible." Independent publisher Graham Earnshaw helped launch the careers of a generation of China journalists by giving them jobs at Reuters, Xinhua Finance or his own magazine China Economic Review. Working for Graham, host Jake Spring remembers a man surrounded in a mythology of old China adventures from earlier in his career. Now, Graham lays out on-the-record some of his wildest stories as one of the first Western journalists allowed into China as it opened up in 1979.

Countries featured: UK, Australia, China, Japan

Publications featured: Reuters, China Economic Review, Xinhua Finance, The Daily Telegraph

Graham discusses his upbringing in Australia as the son of a newspaperman (7:06), moving to China with Reuters in 1979 and immediately getting a big scoop on the Democracy Wall (10:31), China's attempts to surveil and control  foreign journalists in the 1980s and how little it has changed since then (18:20), giving his minders the slip to witness a Tibetan sky burial (27:19), reporting from Tiananmen square in 1989 (37:46), getting out of journalism to run businesses like Xinhua Finance and China Economic Review (41:50), his hiring Jake and many other journalists to work at CER (53:42), his walk across China (59:50), the early days of live music and nightlife in China (1:06:03) and finally the lightning round (1:13:53).

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

Jonathan Kos-Read's novel The Eunuch - https://amzn.to/3q85YAE

Graham's account of a Tibetan sky burial - https://bit.ly/3xBeECe

His account of covering Tiananmen in 1989 - https://bit.ly/3cQfLWw

His book The Great Walk of China - https://amzn.to/3xzorZj

His music on Soundcloud - https://bit.ly/3cSRY8z

Jamil Anderlini's "Western companies succumb to Stockholm Syndrome" - https://on.ft.com/2SgtBum

Nick Macfie's novel Hadley - https://amzn.to/35ArTqC

George Morrison wiki bio - https://bit.ly/3wLyhY3

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"A love letter to journalists." A fitting description for the film Spotlight and possibly this podcast. For our 50th episode, we look back at the 2015 movie and hear views on the movie from eight past guests.  

Guests in order of appearance:

Ep. 3 - Camilla Costa, BBC, London (@_camillacosta)

Ep. 9 - Brian Rosenthal, New York Times, New York (@brianmrosenthal)

Ep. 20 - Terrence Edwards, Bloomberg, Mongolia (@TerryReports)

Ep. 21 - Paul Schrodt, Freelance, Los Angeles (@paulschrodt)

Ep. 22 - Megha Rajagopalan, BuzzFeed News, London (@meghara)

Ep. 24 - Aarti Betigeri, Freelance, Australia (@pomegranitaa)

Ep. 27 - Ed Clowes, formerly The Telegraph (@EdClowes)

Ep. 38 - Joanna Kakissis, NPR, Greece (@joannakakissis)

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Reporting in jungles isn't for the faint of heart. Rhett Butler, founder and editor-in-chief of environmental news website Mongabay, talks about getting stranded in a dangerous situation in Suriname, the many jungle diseases he has gotten, and some tips for getting phone signal in the rainforest. He also tells us the origins of Mongabay go back to books he started writing as a teenager and ended with an empire of sites in a dozen different languages.

Countries featured: Madagascar, Indonesia, Brazil, Suriname, Ecuador, USA

Publications featured: Mongabay

Rhett discusses his fascination with animals and tropical rainforests as a kid (5:32), writing books on tropical fish and rainforests as a teenage (8:32), quitting his day job to launch the Mongabay news service (16:12), running a news website and trying to find phone signal in the forest (22:00), launching Mongabay's Indonesian version as the site turned into a non-profit (25:11), trends in environmental news (37:45), a reporting trip in China that ran afoul of authorities (46:55), his story on Madagascar rosewood deforestation that led the president to call him a bastard (50:03) and the lightning round (57:22)

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

Mongabay home page - https://www.mongabay.com

Donate to Mongabay - https://mongabay.org/donate/

Global Forest Watch - https://bit.ly/3hSePnR

Rhett's story on Madagascar rosewood - https://bit.ly/3v9p3Ed

Grist - https://bit.ly/3wvmM6K

Behind the Bastards podcast - https://apple.co/3fIRQc2

Bellingcat investigative journalism - https://bit.ly/3viBopy

The Killing Fields movie on IMDb - https://imdb.to/2OjcC4t

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Yes, sometimes film critics hurt people’s feelings. Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) will get into the nitty gritty of what it’s like to work as a critic from the demise of newspapers and the rise of the freelance critic to how New York mag has diversified its stable of critics.

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Zooming with Chloé Zhao - what could better typify the pandemic era? Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) takes us inside how she did her recent cover story for New York magazine about Zhao. We also hear about what it’s like to be a critic - from panning the remake of Mulan to championing foreign movies that get much less attention in the United States

Countries featured: USA, UK

Publications featured: IFC, IndieWire, BuzzFeed News, New York magazine, Vulture

Alison discusses growing up in the Bay Area with a Singaporean-Chinese mom and British dad (8:22), using Craigslist to get her first apartment and first job at IFC in New York (16:02), getting hired by IndieWire to launch a TV vertical (21:48), Apple Watches and cold hard cash at BuzzFeed News (24:50), the art of the bad movie review (32:48), Bacurau and foreign films (38:15), how being a critic changed how she views movies for pleasure (44:43), a dream assignment involving Martin Scorcese that came at the wrong time (49:10), reporting her profile of Chloé Zhao (51:39) and finally the lightning round (1:01:33).

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

Alison’s review of Nobody - https://bit.ly/3o1g6u3

Her essay on Asian American character actors - https://bit.ly/3f1Tc1r

Her interview with Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow - https://bit.ly/3uz5bdc

Her review of Mulan - https://bit.ly/3vY7dnP

Her top 10 movies of 2020 - https://bit.ly/2PZXsG8

Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation - https://bit.ly/2SxUmtT

Alison’s cover story on Chloé Zhao - https://bit.ly/3exJu85

Nick Pinkerton’s Substack - https://bit.ly/33tkNDe

Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day newsletter - https://bit.ly/3hcqQ7b

NYT story on anti-Asian hate crimes - https://nyti.ms/3f8bfDd

The Black Tapes podcast - https://bit.ly/3y7YLnQ

The collection that includes Justin M. Damiano - https://amzn.to/3nZhkG1

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A promising journalism career briefly takes a dark turn down the path of Instagram influencing. Alden Wicker, a freelance journalist and author, managed to come out the other side. Her career as a sustainable fashion journalist - as the editor of EcoCult and freelancer for numerous big name publications - culminated with her book To Dye For. We also discuss manifesting, MDMA and sex parties. 

Countries featured: U.S.A., Bangladesh, India

Publications featured: Huffington Post, LearnVest, Newsweek, EcoCult, WIRED, Quartz, Refinery29, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, VTDigger

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

My story in the Overseas Press Club Award-winning series - https://bit.ly/4ac8bBa 

Alden's book To Dye For on Amazon.com - https://bit.ly/4afMBf5 

EcoCult - https://ecocult.com 

Alden's story for Newsweek - https://bit.ly/43ByRch 

Her story about American Spirit cigarettes - https://bit.ly/4aCD5Cu 

Her story on a startup sex party with a questionable founder - https://bit.ly/4cEZwcg 

Her Harper's Bazaar story on toxic clothing - https://bit.ly/43FM5og 

Sourcing Journal - https://sourcingjournal.com

Rebecca Solnit's story In the Shadow of Silicon Valley - https://bit.ly/4cD02Hw 

Alden's story about Burning Man environmental impacts - https://bit.ly/3xknjOw 

The book She Said - https://bit.ly/4aBJmP2 

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The podcast tradition of foreign correspondents getting ejected from countries continues. For Gerry Shih, China Correspondent for the Washington Post, there was the added twist of getting kicked out during a global pandemic. On the eve of his reassignment as WaPo’s India bureau chief, Gerry looks back at his time covering China, which he is convinced is now a bigger story than ever.

Countries featured: China, Tajikistan, USA, Mongolia

Publications featured: Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, New York Times

Gerry discusses his childhood between California, China and Illinois (6:35), a wakeup call to the realities of journalism on his first day as an NYT intern (14:50), working in the Reuters’ Beijing Bureau alongside Jake (19:45), jumping to AP where he reported some of the biggest stories about Uyghur persecution (25:38), getting kicked out of China with a raft of other American correspondents (33:54), the challenges of reporting on China from the outside (41:37), the importance of digging into big stories and not letting go (49:37), his story finding a secret Chinese military base in Tajikistan (53:40), and the lightning round (1:03:28).

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

Gerry’s story on China using U.S. computer chips to build weapons - https://wapo.st/3sMu5og

His scoop with a first look inside China’s Uyghur indoctrination camps - https://bit.ly/3ep7Uzc

Several of his other key Uyghur stories - https://bit.ly/32NuKuS

His story on a Chinese military outpost in Tajikistan - https://wapo.st/32M7Sfi

Fresh Air on NPR - https://n.pr/3xjc3gK

ESPN’s The Jump podcast - https://es.pn/2QXZ5UN

The Lowe Post NBA podcast - https://es.pn/2QWei8U

NYT story on Mexican woman who stalked her daughter’s killers - https://nyti.ms/3aUnbav

American Factory documentary on Netflix - https://bit.ly/2S2uaHG

Once Upon a Distant War book - https://amzn.to/3aCghq8

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What do bagels and sexual harassment have in common? The food industry! Serena Dai (@ssdai), a senior features editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, has made her name by thinking and writing about all things food - emphasis on ALL THINGS - from the hilarious/inconsequential to the direly serious issues of sexual misconduct and racism. A local journalist in a previous life, she explains how food journalism is not so different considering you usually only eat the food immediately around you.

Countries featured: USA

Publications featured: Eater, DNAinfo, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, NU Intel

Serena discusses bagels (3:18), her start in high school and college journalism plus AP and NYmag internships (11:50), her first jobs at the Atlantic Wire and local journalism at DNAinfo (23:57), transitioning to food journalism with Eater New York (32:28), her philosophy on world building through food stories and restaurant reviews (40:21), her current job at the Chron (48:37), her appearance on David Chang's Ugly Delicious (52:35), a story about a miraculous fall while rock climbing and comfort circles (56:56), her story package on Chinese food in New York inspired by WeChat (1:04:25), and finally the lightning round (1:14:51).

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

The original California bagel hot take - https://nyti.ms/3mBtVys

Serena’s hot take on bagels - https://bit.ly/3218ihy

The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Food in NYC - https://bit.ly/3d7bVJl

The Daigest newsletter - https://bit.ly/3dMU61a

Serena's episode of Ugly Delicious - https://bit.ly/3uFgAIb

Eater’s weekly newsletter from Amanda Kludt - https://bit.ly/3uKGSZN

The Family Meal newsletter - https://bit.ly/3saMFpA

From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy newsletter - https://bit.ly/3dWe1uH

Who Weekly podcast - https://bit.ly/3g08Qwd

Time to Say Goodbye podcast - https://apple.co/3mDxLXG

The Ringer’s Guide to Binge-Watching Survivor - https://bit.ly/3wLKBYH

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Deep in the jungle, Fabiano Maisonnave finds amazing stories to tell. He is the only correspondent for a major Brazilian newspaper to be based in the Amazon rainforest region. Long before he reported on remote Amazon tribes, Fabiano tells us about leaving his first assignment in farm country over death threats. He then sets off on a long period as a foreign correspondent, covering Latin America from all over the region, and later becoming Folha’s correspondent in Beijing. 

Countries featured: Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, China

Publications featured: Folha de S.Paulo

Fabiano discusses growing up in a closed community around a megadam project during the Brazilian dictatorship (7:45), his first job digging into corruption in Brazil’s farm country and being run out of town (15:10), reporting around Latin America, including a coup in Honduras that left him in close quarters with the ousted president (22:21), moving to China to report on everything from fake shoes to geopolitics (26:45), returning to Brazil to report on the Amazon (33:19), the story that got away about a political murder in the early 2000s (38:56), rooting out a corrupt businessman attempting to bribe indigenous to mine their territory (43:55), dangers and challenges of reporting in the rainforest and living in Manaus (49:09) and finally the lightning round (59:38). 

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

Jake’s story on the Brazilian military in the Amazon - https://reut.rs/3w0b0Se

Fabiano’s story on traditional runaway slave communities (English) - https://bit.ly/3tZkV8Y

Fabiano’s english language work on Climate Home - https://bit.ly/3cqKSbg

His story on a polluted waterfall (Portuguese) - https://bit.ly/3cqftpy

Fabiano’s story on Chinese knockoff shoes (Portuguese) - https://bit.ly/3lSSuXo

His story on attempts to bribe indigenous to mine their land (Portugese) - https://bit.ly/3conWcK

His story accompanying indigenous attempting to shut down illegal mines (Portuguese) -  https://bit.ly/3tZ8Z6S

Amazonia Real (Portuguese) - https://bit.ly/39lkWMn

NYT Book Review podcast - https://apple.co/3fk1Bij

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo - https://amzn.to/2UpGXSm

Harry Hole by Jo Nesbo wiki - https://bit.ly/3lXnGVb

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed - https://amzn.to/39jsgbz

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Prague, come for the theater, stay for the podcasting. Morgan Childs, co-host and producer of the Foreign Insiders podcast, tells us about getting her start reporting stories on food and “weird” Eastern Europe. She has now found a new professional life as an audio journalist, launching her podcast series on migration in the Czech Republic.

Countries featured: USA, Poland, Ukraine, Liberland, Czech Republic

Publications featured: Saveur, BBC, GQ, Lucky Peach, Vice

Morgan discusses how her theater studies took her to the Czech Republic for the first time (7:17), getting started as a freelancer by telling "weird Czech stories" (13:10), burning out on freelance writing and turning to podcasting (25:10), a story that got away about a made up pan-Slavic language (30:20), her GQ story about a made up country and its unsavory founders (33:29), her podcast Foreign Insiders (44:48) and the lightning round (53:05).

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

Foreign Insiders podcast - https://foreigninsiders.com

Morgan’s story about snail farming - https://bit.ly/3viXqci

Her Saveur story on Polish milk bars - https://bit.ly/30IkJOw

Her story about a Ukranian violinist - http://bbc.in/3bHcitk

Her Vice story about a town made of marzipan - http://bit.ly/3qQKSFO

Her Vice story on stinky cheese - http://bit.ly/3lpOeyt

Her GQ story about a made up country - http://bit.ly/3qL3wyP

Radio Prague - http://bit.ly/2Ng6QnP

Monocle 24 podcast - http://bit.ly/3lleWbh

Washington Post podcast Canary - http://wapo.st/3qJZGFW

On Being with Krista Tippett podcast - http://bit.ly/2OTEHmJ

David Kestenbaum on This American Life - http://bit.ly/3rNw1gp

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Jane Arraf (@janearraf) didn’t go seeking war, war came to her. She first moved to Iraq in 1997 under Saddam Hussein and was kicked out twice before returning when the U.S. invaded. She also bore witness to the carnage in Mosul in the wake of ISIS. Her reporting on conflict stands out for its humanity, vibrancy and - when possible - hope. She is now the Baghdad bureau chief of The New York Times.

Countries featured: Canada, Haiti, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt

Publications featured: NPR, CNN, Reuters, New York Times

Jane discusses growing up in Canada and starting in local TV (4:51), reporting in Montreal, Haiti, the Middle East and elsewhere for Reuters (11:56), opening the CNN bureau in Baghdad and getting kicked out a couple times under Saddam (22:08), covering the Iraq war (31:22), how the nature of conflicts (such as the war with ISIS) has changed and made it more dangerous for journalists (40:14), her story about how young people began rebuilding Mosul post-ISIS without government help (51:27) and the lightning round (58:24).

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

Jane’s story on Yazidi’s reburying their dead post-ISIS - http://nyti.ms/3qXoQlo

Her CNN story that got her expelled from Iraq - http://cnn.it/3bP1hES

Lindsey Hilsum’s book In Extremis - https://amzn.to/2O4rwiK

Jane’s story D.I.Y. Mosul for Rough Translation podcast - http://n.pr/3uFLIYQ

Iraq Oil Report - https://bit.ly/3dTEOcM

AFP story Baghdad: Forever on the Brink - https://bit.ly/2NEFFTY

Jane’s story on the Prophet Joshua’s tomb in Baghdad - http://nyti.ms/3kwuJ6U

Martha Gellhorn wiki - http://bit.ly/3cnZGVT

It’s a Beautiful day in the Neighborhood on IMDb - http://imdb.to/3r1aXTt

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Remember traveling? While you’re stuck inside in the pandemic, you can still travel far and wide thanks to the Far from Home podcast by public radio veteran Scott Gurian. Scott takes you along for the ride on one of the world’s epic road trips from London to Mongolia and back across the deserts of Iran and mountains of central Asia. The Peabody award winner talks about how a not-so-adventurous guy from New Jersey came to document that trip and others.

Countries featured: Iran, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Cuba, Mexico, USA

Publications featured: NPR, WNYC, Planet Money, Pacifica radio

Scott discusses beginning his career by making it up as he goes along in advocacy and community radio (6:44), his “driveway moment” that turns him on to NPR and getting into mainstream public radio in Oklahoma (13:17), being thrust into covering Hurricane Sandy (25:47), how a trip to Cuba set him on a path toward Mongol Rally and travel podcasting (30:00), the nitty gritty of the economics of podcasting, the ins and outs of public radio universe and the tension between podcasts and radio (41:10), jpw frozen equipment in Alaska and sketchy bootleggers lead some stories to fall through (47:00), his years reporting about the Hurricane Sandy response and the Peabody winning story (51:08), and finally the lightning round (55:25).

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

Scott’s podcast Far from Home - http://bit.ly/3qpH2Ec

HowSound podcast by Rob Rosenthal - http://apple.co/3pmQdnk

WNYC’s Peabody winning coverage of Hurricane Sandy response - http://bit.ly/3ai2VQb

Scott’s story on Antigua and Barbuda for Planet Money - http://n.pr/3d5rlOy

Vox podcast Today, Explained - http://bit.ly/3dapcRD

An Arm and a Leg podcast - http://bit.ly/37beYwH

In the Dark podcast Season 2 - http://apple.co/2GYGUdc

Chef Yotam Ottolenghi wiki - http://bit.ly/2OsLX92

Milk Street cooking website - http://bit.ly/3qlDu5D

Bill Buford’s book Among the Thugs - https://amzn.to/3jN3J2D

Throughline podcast - http://n.pr/3s44jfl

WNYC’s On the Media radio show - http://bit.ly/2NkxhZ8

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Sarah Esther Maslin explains what it's like to work at the Economist including the lack of bylines, its distinctive voice and viewpoint, and an unusual time when she broke some news. 

Sarah’s story about the Amazon rainforest - http://econ.st/3oCdC3I

Her story about the Honduras election - http://econ.st/3tbOXGL

We go deep on a history of Central American violence with Sarah Esther Maslin (@sarahmaslin). She discusses the years she’s spent reporting out a prospective book about Latin America’s largest modern massacre in El Salvador, stemming from her lifelong fascination with violent tragedies and the marks they leave on society. That project led her to freelance journalism and ultimately to Brazil with The Economist.

Countries featured: Brazil, El Salvador, Argentina

Publications featured: Washington Post, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Economist

Sarah discusses growing up in California and Wisconsin (8:20), her first journalism experiences at Yale (13:44), moving to El Salvador (21:18), getting a pivotal call from the Washington Post to launch her freelance career (29:07), landing a correspondent job at The Economist that sends her to Brazil - a place she had never given much thought before (37:05), a story that got away involving extrajudicial police killings in El Salvador (50:55), her story about horrible prison conditions in El Salvador and how a case of mistaken identity led to a man’s death in jail (57:00) and the lightning round (1:04:31).

Here are some of the things we talked about:

Sarah’s story about global COVID-19 vaccine rollout - http://econ.st/3cDp2SL

New Yorker article about El Mozote massacre - http://bit.ly/2McHO8J

Michael Reid’s book on Brazil - https://amzn.to/2NQ2sMe

Sarah’s story about an innocent man’s death in an El Salvador prison - http://wapo.st/3cr61Th

Ed Yong’s 2018 piece on how the U.S. is not ready for a pandemic - http://bit.ly/3j3c8P5

Yong’s piece on tracking gender in his sources - http://bit.ly/36tVLFZ

Susan Meiselas’ photography work - http://bit.ly/3j05Lfn

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It turns out there’s a lot more to Russia than just Putin and election meddling. Sure, we talk about that, but independent radio producer Charles Maynes in Moscow tells us tales of Russian culture from the early Soviet era to present. While he may not always think of himself as a journalist, that may be what makes his journalism work so great. Also, in a first for the podcast, we hear a poetry reading. 

Publications featured: Voice of America, NPR, 99% Invisible, Radiotopia

Countries featured: Russia, USA

Charles discusses his affinity for the Midwest where he got his start as a musician and journalist (5:10), a visit to Moscow that turns into a whole lot more (11:30), back to the US and some good jobs, some bad jobs and some weird jobs (15:49), returning to Russia on a Fulbright to work with local radio stations (18:22), modern Russia under Putin and sticking a thumb in the eye of the U.S. (26:03), telling the story of an early Soviet composer who directed the sounds of the city (40:16), the lightning round (43:58), a long but entertaining tangent about Russian architecture, the Transiberian Railroad, Lake Baikal and Chinese tourism (49:43), the lightning round again (59:38), and how he views his career (1:14:00)

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

Charles’ Spacebridge podcast on Radiotopia - http://apple.co/3nQBlwN

His piece on Symphony of Sirens on 99% Invisible - http://apple.co/3ijCiMN

Russian news website Meduza (in English) - http://bit.ly/35HaU6j

NPR’s radio drama version of Star Wars (English, not Russian) - http://bit.ly/3qhBuuS

Wind of Change podcast - http://apple.co/352Bg1y

William B. Williams bio - http://bit.ly/3nOnJlB

James Agee’s book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - http://bit.ly/3stNPOh

The poem Radio of the Future by Velimir Khlebnikov - http://bit.ly/38N6qgq

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We prowl the halls of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team in the capable hands of Tim Cato (@tim_cato), a staff writer with The Athletic. Tim got into sports reporting as a 17-year-old fan, but now he’s seen too much and the fandom has melted away. Still, he loves his job reporting on the huge characters, power dynamics and colorful feature stories the NBA has to provide - even finding what’s interesting about banal sports cliches and taking a trip to Slovenia.

Publications featured: SB Nation, Mavs Moneyball, The Athletic

Countries featured: USA, Slovenia

Tim discusses getting into sports reporting at 17 as a way to go to basketball games (5:44), the strange internet beast that is/was SB Nation (10:19), going from exploited free labor to staffer at SB Nation (16:17), The Athletic making a splash on the national sports scene (23:24), a breakdown of what it’s really like reporting on a basketball team (27:19), cliche sports questions and answers (31:10), losing his sports fandom (40:14), the larger-than-life Mark Cuban (47:56), telling the story of Mavericks star Luka Dončić by going to Slovenia (55:17), and the lightning round (1:01:32).

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

Mavs Moneyball (yes it still exists) - https://bit.ly/3lecEcw

SB Nation - https://bit.ly/39igQWa

Tim’s story on cliche questions and answers - https://bit.ly/3fCQ9wk

A clip of Mark Cuban on a StairMaster - https://bit.ly/3l6xR7W

Tim’s story from Slovenia - https://bit.ly/364rXQA

D Magazine - https://bit.ly/39fYi8Y

Texas Monthly’s “What if they had an election and everyone came?” - https://bit.ly/3m7yoYH

Jane Mayer’s book Dark Money - https://amzn.to/3682GF7

Baxter Holmes’ stories via Longform.org - https://bit.ly/33gaEKq

Sam Anderson’s book Boom Town - https://amzn.to/33gaOBw

Two Writers Slinging Yang podcast - https://apple.co/3fMKhB7

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Born in Mexico to American parents, David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) returned to report on the country for decades. Luhnow talks about the tectonic shifts in Mexico and yet, how through all this time, the country's institutions continue to fail. The mental toll of years reporting on Mexico's drug war contributed to his leaving to become the current United Kingdom bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal​​. Also, he gets punched in the face.

Countries featured: Mexico, Panama, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom

Publications featured: The Mexico City News, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal

Here are links to some of the things we talked about

David's story on the UK university system - https://bit.ly/3szftyy

Yaroslav Trofimov on WSJ.com - https://bit.ly/47AewFv

David's story A Day in the Life of Baghdad - https://bit.ly/3SKiWoB

His story on the Treasure of Nimrud in Iraq - https://bit.ly/3SMB692

His story on the Iraq cigarette company - https://bit.ly/3R5jYKp

His story on murder in Acapulco - https://bit.ly/47ksI5f

His story on a high school kidnap ring - https://bit.ly/49KE8AY

Mexico's Reforma newspaper - https://bit.ly/49CUpb7

Letras Libras - https://letraslibres.com

The Rest is History podcast - https://bit.ly/49FBYlT

New Yorker story "How the Elderly Lose Their Rights" - https://bit.ly/3sFz3Js

José de Córdoba's story on the Russian yacht in Antigua - https://bit.ly/40K1fr4

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Ode to a Grecian journ(alist). Family looms large in this episode with Joanna Kakissis (@joannakakissis), a correspondent in Athens for National Public Radio, whose Greek parents instilled in her the importance of their culture from a young age. She made a mark early in her career as part of a Pulitzer finalist newspaper reporting team before returning to her roots in Greece where she has reported for more than a decade.

Countries featured: Turkey, USA, Greece

Publications featured: The News & Observer, Boston Globe, Time magazine, The New York Times, NPR

Joanna discusses growing up as the only Greeks in small town North Dakota (4:43), her trajectory from college to NPR (16:12), her newspaper coverage of a hurricane in North Carolina that taught her not to exoticize her subjects (23:00), why she took a risk to cover the Athens Olympics for the Boston Globe and became a freelance foreign correspondent (28:46), her broader European coverage (35:00), a story that got away about a Syrian doctor in Germany who killed the piece for fear for his family (38:58), her series for NPR on Uighurs in Turkey (44:28) and the lightning round (54:45).

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

Joanna talks about covering the European migrant crisis - https://n.pr/3kAnokS

Part 1 of Joanna’s Uighur in Turkey series - https://n.pr/32GhJ6T

Part 2 - https://n.pr/3kw8X1e

Part 3 - https://n.pr/3eYpDxg

NPR’s Radiolab - https://bit.ly/36BmsaX

NPR’s Rough Translation podcast - https://n.pr/2ZXvzRo

NYT’s The Jungle Prince of Delhi - https://nyti.ms/39hXIUR

NYT Cooking mapo tofu recipe - https://nyti.ms/2IAUIuP

Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers - https://amzn.to/2UpGXSm

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As a journalist, who you are matters. Freelance journalist Fariba Nawa (@faribanawa) tells how she learned this the hard way. But her identity, that early in her career may have hindered her, has turned into a strength. She has gone from refugee to a reporter who covers refugees. She is an Afghan American proud of her heritage who also struggles with its deep patriarchy. Now setting her sights on podcasting, she discusses launching On Spec podcast that seeks to lift up less-heard global stories.

Countries featured: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, USA, Turkey

Publications featured: AFP, New Yorker, The Argus, Refinery29, PRI’s The World, Pacific News Service

Fariba discusses fleeing Afghanistan at age 9 (4:48), navigating her family with a deep writing tradition but rooted in a patriarchal Afghan community (15:42), a shaky experience trying to break into foreign reporting that takes her to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran (31:18), going to grad school at NYU just as 9/11 happens and thrusts her back into reporting on Afghanistan (40:12), getting kicked out of Pakistan (47:12), writing her book Opium Nation (53:22), her freelance work on feminism in Turkey and starting OnSpec podcast (1:10:52) and ends on the lightning round (1:19:02).

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

On Spec podcast - https://apple.co/3e4xA3q

Fariba’s book Opium Nation - https://amzn.to/3ovp5mS

Her TEDx talk - https://bit.ly/3oAHUFl

Her piece on the rise of divorce in Turkey - https://bit.ly/37WB5YG

Her Refinery29 on Afghan feminism - https://r29.co/383vGzp

Her story on a teenager raped by her smuggler - https://bit.ly/3jDSt71

Heavyweight podcast episode “Scott” - https://apple.co/2Jg5Y06

Jon Lee Anderson on Twitter - https://bit.ly/2TvA1mp

Kim Barker’s book Taliban Shuffle - https://amzn.to/35N1OnS

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A very special election episode! Libby Nelson (@libbyanelson) talks to us about how she is approaching U.S. presidential election coverage as Senior Deputy Policy Editor at Vox. As you may well have guessed, covering this election has turned out to be very different than we could have predicted. Libby also talks about how she came to work for journalism startups, becoming one of Vox’s first few employees when the website was still just an idea. 

Countries featured: USA

Publications featured: The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Scranton Times-Tribune, Politico, Vox, The Daily Northwestern

Libby discusses being raised by two newspaper journalists in Kansas (5:05), burning out at Northwestern University's daily newspaper (11:52), interning at NYT at the depth of the financial crisis (21:53), transitioning from newspapers to the trades to startups (25:39), joining Vox when it was just an idea (39:12), become an editor (46:01), election coverage (48:17), the killer profile encapsulating Obama's education policy that never happened (57:42), her story about a conservative faction taking over a religious college in Georgia (1:04:19), working with reporters on a global story about healthcare (1:08:51) and finally the lightning round (1:14:24)

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

Libby’s story on a religious college takeover - https://bit.ly/375OY6t

Vox story on how healthcare works globally - https://bit.ly/3k0AwAq

In the Dark podcast - https://apple.co/2GYGUdc

Wind of Change podcast - https://apple.co/352Bg1y

NYT story on Trump’s taxes - https://nyti.ms/2SRuBlk

The Hour on IMDb - https://imdb.to/3drIYGo

Linda Greenhouse NYT stories - https://nyti.ms/3k0K8uT

Nina Totenberg NPR stories - https://n.pr/3nOoIU5

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What’s this? There’s more? We talk in-depth about his job helping shape the visual language of The New York Times and his approach to video journalism, as well as an offbeat story set in North Korea that never quite happened.

Countries featured: North Korea, USA

Jonah's short doc about zoonotic diseases - https://nyti.ms/2F0fOkS

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