Charlotte Greenfield - New Zealand - Reuters

What was it like reporting on the Christchurch mosque attack? Charlotte Greenfield tells us how it felt to be there as someone from New Zealand and takes us inside her story examining how such an attack could happen. We also talk about her story from when she did a stint in Afghanistan on how US peace talks with the Taliban could be marginalizing Afghan women.

We talk about growing up in Wellington with a journalist step-father (3:55), studying law and journalism despite having no intention of becoming a lawyer (10:23), founding an NGO in Kenya (18:45) Columbia j-school (24:00), her start at Reuters in Indonesia (30:35), her story on the lack of hate crime tracking in New Zealand (46:50), her story on the Taliban negotiations (52:20) and what it was like to rush into the reporting on the Christchurch attack (57:15). Also, stick around for the lightning round (1:02:07).

 

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

Charlotte's story on "fixing" intersex children - http://bit.ly/2olxAGO

Her story on hate crimes in New Zealand - https://reut.rs/2AMTFkm

Her story on Afghan women's fears of Taliban return - https://reut.rs/2nlxWwR

The behind-the-scenes story on her Chirstchurch reporting - https://reut.rs/2Onzphi

Radio New Zealand - http://bit.ly/31UdAK4

The High Low on Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2o62wel

The Maori weekly magazine E-Tangata - http://bit.ly/2LNqVhC

Texas Monthly story on teen friends caught in school shooting - http://bit.ly/31Ph9Bn

Rukmini Callimachi on Twitter - http://bit.ly/2Vfw7hz

Veronica Guerin on IMDb - https://imdb.to/31W2HaQ

 

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