Foreign Correspondence is a podcast that brings you hour-long interviews with journalists around the world hosted by Jake Spring.
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Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
You've been reporting on Brazil for about six years and an old source gets in touch. The preacher tells you how bad things have gotten since the last time you saw him years back, when things were already stalling out for what was once billed as an oil boom town. A militia had taken over their small town, and people are disappearing. What do you do? Well, if your Bruce Douglas (@bruceecurb), you report the hell out of it. Bruce, an editor for Bloomberg in Brasilia, dusted off his reporting hat and got to the bottom of it. It's a story of years of reporting on Brazil really paying off.
Bruce discusses growing up in small town England (4:10), early journalism rumblings from starting a high school newspaper to interning at The Tico Times in Costa Rica (10:55), J-school and breaking into London journalism (16:50), a seven-year stint with the BBC radio (19:36), taking the plunge into foreign correspondence in Rio for the World Cup, Olympics and general political carnage (24:20), exiting freelancing for Brasilia and Bloomberg (35:41) and walking us through his story on the Rio militia/mafia (42:10). Of course, we end with the lightning round (53:40).
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
The Tico Times - http://bit.ly/2BkNJPZ
Latin American Newsletters - http://bit.ly/33EMaIE
BBC World Service radio - https://bbc.in/2MTrwgX
Bruce's Foreign Policy piece "The Kickback that Killed Brazil" - http://bit.ly/35KZQnm
His piece for Bloomberg on police extortion in Brazil - https://bloom.bg/33HKWfL
Guardian columnist Marina Hyde on Twitter - http://bit.ly/32qEABe
Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland on Twitter - http://bit.ly/2MTAjzJ
Spectator columnist Rod Liddle - http://bit.ly/35InZux
William Langewiesche on MH370 disappearance - http://bit.ly/32ugOEo
George Orwell essay A Hanging - http://bit.ly/31mUevV
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