Charlie Campbell - Shanghai/Asia - Time magazine

Strap in for a hero's journey through the world of Indonesian terrorism. Charlie Campbell (@charliecamp6ell) of Time magazine walks us through the series of strange turns that took him to that took him to a prison, the Ivy League for Jihadists before landing an interview with the first female suicide bomber (she was not successful and therefor alive). Charlie takes us all over Asia as he walks us through his career.

We discuss early days from family to his first taste of journalism in Buenos Aires (1:59), cutting his teeth in  blue collar London journalism (10:44), moving to Southeast Asia and reporting on Myanmar (17:34), becoming a Time magazine intern at 31 in Hong Kong (25:30), odds and ends of working at Time (31:10), the "story that got away" on human trafficking (41:06), his story about Islamic extremism in Indonesia(46:21), and end with the Lightning Round (59:50).

 

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

Time story on Indonesia’s First Female Suicide Bomber - http://bit.ly/2L6gowv

NYT interactive feature on how Notre Dame was saved - https://nyti.ms/2ziXpZY

The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley - https://amzn.to/2PbntBf

The Zanzibar Chest by Aiden Hartley - https://amzn.to/2L7iUCD

 

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