Episodes
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Thomas Peter - Reuters - China (& Ukraine)
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
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Neil Munshi - West Africa - Bloomberg
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Monday Jul 04, 2022
*Bonus* Jon Lee Anderson on Latin America and The New Yorker
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Jon Lee Anderson - The New Yorker
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Ian Urbina - The Outlaw Ocean Project
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday May 01, 2022
Julie McCarthy - Southeast Asia - NPR
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Lucinda Elliott - Financial Times - Uruguay
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
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
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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Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Guga Chacra - Globo News - USA
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Evan Hill - Middle East - New York Times
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Stephen Gibbs - Venezuela - The Times/Economist/CGTN
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
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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Music: LoveChances (makaihbeats.net) by Makaih Beats
From: freemusicarchive.org