Foreign Correspondence is a podcast that brings you hour-long interviews with journalists around the world hosted by Jake Spring.
Episodes
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Leaving school at age 16 for a technical apprenticeship, Andrew Downie (@adowniebrazil) would stumble into his first journalism job while traveling in Mexico. Within five years he'd be working for The New York Times in Haiti. After decades of covering Latin America, Andrew now lives in Spain where he is working on a biography of soccer legend Pelé.
Countries featured: Brazil, Haiti, Mexico, Spain, Scotland
Publications featured: The Mexico City News, UPI, New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, Time magazine, Reuters
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Andrew's website - https://bit.ly/3rdleRx
His biography of Socrates - https://bit.ly/44RTmA9
The Instagram dedicated to Socrates - https://bit.ly/3PxT9xO
Tariq Panja on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3EBn3Ln
Always Take Notes podcast - https://bit.ly/3sJQ4Sl
Unofficial Partner podcast - https://bit.ly/3LiNqt0
Tommy Tomlinson substack - https://bit.ly/45PWQof
Wright Thompson on Longform - https://bit.ly/3Ew7hRS
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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
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Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Business is a lot like sports. It's competitive and stock prices keep the score. Also keeping score is one of the world's highest powered business journalists: Liana Baker (@LianaBaker), managing editor for the Bloomberg deals team in the United States. She talks about how dabbling in sports, foreign reporting and environment eventually led her down the path of hardcore business reporting on the M&A beat.
Countries featured: United States, Israel, Brazil, South Korea
Publications featured: MarketWatch, Reuters, Bloomberg
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Ringette on Wikipedia - https://bit.ly/45ndwTK
The Media Line website - https://bit.ly/3qRwSRX
Liana tells how she got the story on Soft Bank selling Sprint to T-mobile - https://bit.ly/45kcNTy
Her story on Broadcom buying VMWare - https://bit.ly/3OM23pO
Dealreporter - https://bit.ly/45HWe3u
Barstool Sports - https://bit.ly/45ASoK9
The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden - https://bit.ly/3ONWqYn
Megan Twohey on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3lVRUIO
The Dropout on Hulu - https://bit.ly/45iVtyj
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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
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Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Can you name the world's eight bear species? Gloria Dickie (@GloriaDickie), a London-based Climate & Environment Correspondent for Reuters, has documented them all in her book Eight Bears. Gloria tells the improbable story of how she conceived and reported the book while working as a freelancer and living on the road as she traveled the world in search of each bear.
Countries featured: USA, Canada, Vietnam, China, India, Peru, Ecuador, UK
Publications featured: National Geographic, Mongabay, New York Times, Reuters
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Where to buy or pre-order Gloria's book Eight Bears - https://bit.ly/3NzkCwQ
Chasing Ice documentary - https://bit.ly/46ugiYr
The Human Element documentary - https://bit.ly/3CXPDWA
Her story on the end of grizzly bear hunting in British Columbia - https://bit.ly/3XynWgc
Her story on maggot farming - https://bit.ly/46rwycR
Her AirCanada story on pandas - https://bit.ly/3CTsCE6
Her NatGeo story about sloth bears - https://bit.ly/3XBYIOa
Her NYT story on Indian tigers maybe getting COVID - https://bit.ly/3XyxW9k
Her story about honey bees on U.S. public land - https://bit.ly/3XBEKmv
A Private War on IMDb - https://bit.ly/3XBwgMn
Fire of Love on IMDb - https://bit.ly/3pwlMBm
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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
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Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
There are no happy endings in Syria after more than a decade of war. Lina Sinjab (@BBCLinaSinjab), a BBC correspondent based in Beirut, talks about covering the civil war from the start and the terrible toll it has taken on her and her home country. As a multi-format journalist, she regularly produces radio and video documentaries as well as written articles from Syria and the wider region.
Countries featured: Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, UK, Yeman, Libya
Publications featured: BBC, New Lines Magazine
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Lina's 2010 radio documentary on Syria's economy and corruption - https://bit.ly/41jXrwo
Her 2016 radio doc "A Failed Revolution" - https://bit.ly/3ogUcHj
Trailer for her doc "Madness in Aleppo" - https://bit.ly/3UIf8TR
Her documentary "Surryat" (Arabic version) - https://bit.ly/3UVw9Kp
Her story on Yemen Nobel prize winner Tawakul Karman - https://bit.ly/3oiQv3V
Syrian publication Al-Jumhuriya - https://bit.ly/3A4lWS6
Syrian news site Enab Baladi - https://bit.ly/3KK5viV
Middle Eastern media network Raseef22 - https://bit.ly/3UHoM8X
Lebanese site Daraj - https://bit.ly/3A4m4B4
New Lines Magazine - https://bit.ly/3A15iD1
Guardian story Massacre in Tadamon - https://bit.ly/3KHavof
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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
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Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
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Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
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Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org