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  • Elon Musk incited the troll hordes upon Emily Glazer. Not only did she live to tell the tale, she went on to write bombshell stories on Musk's drug use. Talk about not pulling your punches. Glazer, who reports on power and influence at the Wall Street Journal, talks about her roller coaster career and how she manages to produce so many big stories.

    Countries featured: United States, Mexico

    Publications featured: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, Austin American Statesmen

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

    Emily's Daily Northwestern story on female professors' tenure - https://bit.ly/4hriAgD

    The Facebook Files - https://bit.ly/4hfAF0I

    Her first story on Elon Musk's drug use - https://bit.ly/3UhA9Wj

    Her story on Barclays CEO's Jeffrey Epstein links - https://bit.ly/4fdyHvZ

    Popular Information newsletter - https://bit.ly/3YdHUh5

    Empire of Pain - https://bit.ly/3BSzIve

    Her story on drug money in Arizona - https://bit.ly/3YtsqqF

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  • Humo: Murder and Silence in El Salvador connects a gruesome story of mass murder in El Salvador to a larger shift in the country's society with the election of Nayib Bukele. Daniel Alvarenga (@pipianspice), host of the English-language version of the podcast, brings years of experience reporting on El Salvador as well as his experience as a Salvedorean-American to the show. He discusses his backdoor route into journalism, years spent making viral news videos and his struggles to make a career of telling Central American stories.

    Countries featured: USA, El Salvador, Honduras

    Publications featured: Al Jazeera (AJ+), Telemundo, KCSB, Rolling Stone

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

    Humo podcast - https://bit.ly/3y8tEgM

    Newsbroke on AJ+ - https://bit.ly/4c97nxn

    His mini doc Why Are Indigenous People Dying at the Border - https://bit.ly/3LyDKKM

    His mini doc Why So Many Palestinians Live in El Salvador - https://bit.ly/3YeFKQ8

    Bryan Avelar on X - https://x.com/bavelarr

    Revista Factum - https://www.revistafactum.com/

    Atmos Magazine - https://atmos.earth/

    Atmos article on El Salvador - https://bit.ly/3zPUfQ1

    Atmos story on Congo cobalt - https://bit.ly/3xX3EVB

    60 Songs that Explain the 90s podcast - https://bit.ly/46iTUl1

    Locatora Radio episode on protest dad - https://bit.ly/4d7fM56

    Menudo: Forever Young docuseries - https://bit.ly/4d831Hw

    The book News for All the People - https://bit.ly/3SilzwV

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  • “If someone were going to make this story into a movie, I want to hear about the scenes that would be in it.” Notable scenes of Jen Wieczner's career include commuting from Boston to New York while juggling a juice bar job and a journalism internship, scrambling for interviews in Japan, and attending the Goldman Sachs CEO's late night DJ set. Now a features writer at New York Magazine, she discusses how she approaches long-form stories on finance and other topics.

    Countries featured: United States, Japan

    Publications featured: Fast Company, Marie Claire, Smart Money, Market Watch, Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, New York Magazine

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

    Jen's profile of an abrasive chess master - https://bit.ly/3Xk1nOq

    Her story Why Your Boss is Dumping Your Wife - https://bit.ly/4c36wPd

    Her profile of Mylan's CEO Heather Bresch - https://bit.ly/4blkawh

    Her profile of Steve Cohen's return to hedge funds - https://bit.ly/4elwI9n

    Her story on How High Can Bitcoing Go - https://bit.ly/4eADdWa

    Her story The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars - https://bit.ly/3XrnXou

    Her story about nannies in NYC - https://bit.ly/4eqNSTe

    The Atlantic article Bill Ackman Is a Brilliant Fictional Character - https://bit.ly/3VGzkYe

    Reeve's Wiedeman's book on WeWork - https://bit.ly/4aZMxQk

    Jen's story on Mt. Gox in Japan - https://bit.ly/3Vpxmds

    Her Fortune profile of the Goldman Sachs CEO - https://bit.ly/3VoC37b

    Her NYMag profile of the Goldman Sachs CEO - https://bit.ly/3VHDJKy

    New York Post cover on the Oculus leaking - https://tinyurl.com/36dpkc27

    New York Daily News cover on the Oculus leaking - https://images.app.goo.gl/3dP4hzYhBeDJLu3p6

    Matt Levine's Bloomberg newsletter - https://tinyurl.com/mxyvmmuk

    Patrick Radden Keefe's profile of Larry Gagosian - https://tinyurl.com/hukku73u

    Jessica Pressler on Wikipedia - https://tinyurl.com/yeyjwsdt

    The movie She Said on IMDb - https://tinyurl.com/3shuv74z

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  • "To tab. Verb. To rewrite a news article in a tabloid-style." We learn a new word in this episode of the podcast from Sean Collins Walsh, a City Hall reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Sean looks back on his first job at the tabloid Philadelphia Daily News and a career that has landed him reporting back in his hometown of Philly.

    Countries featured: USA, Uganda

    Publications featured: Philadelphia Daily News, Austin American-Statesmen, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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

    The first FoCo episode - https://bit.ly/44qOJyC

    The Toner Prize - https://bit.ly/44lRQIb

    Sean's story on the ethics board probe into Jeff Brown - https://bit.ly/44wjlPd

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  • A promising journalism career briefly takes a dark turn down the path of Instagram influencing. Alden Wicker, a freelance journalist and author, managed to come out the other side. Her career as a sustainable fashion journalist - as the editor of EcoCult and freelancer for numerous big name publications - culminated with her book To Dye For. We also discuss manifesting, MDMA and sex parties.

    Countries featured: U.S.A., Bangladesh, India

    Publications featured: Huffington Post, LearnVest, Newsweek, EcoCult, WIRED, Quartz, Refinery29, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, VTDigger

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

    My story in the Overseas Press Club Award-winning series - https://bit.ly/4ac8bBa

    Alden's book To Dye For on Amazon.com - https://bit.ly/4afMBf5

    EcoCult - https://ecocult.com

    Alden's story for Newsweek - https://bit.ly/43ByRch

    Her story about American Spirit cigarettes - https://bit.ly/4aCD5Cu

    Her story on a startup sex party with a questionable founder - https://bit.ly/4cEZwcg

    Her Harper's Bazaar story on toxic clothing - https://bit.ly/43FM5og

    Sourcing Journal - https://sourcingjournal.com

    Rebecca Solnit's story In the Shadow of Silicon Valley - https://bit.ly/4cD02Hw

    Alden's story about Burning Man environmental impacts - https://bit.ly/3xknjOw

    The book She Said - https://bit.ly/4aBJmP2

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  • Born in Mexico to American parents, David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) returned to report on the country for decades. Luhnow talks about the tectonic shifts in Mexico and yet, how through all this time, the country's institutions continue to fail. The mental toll of years reporting on Mexico's drug war contributed to his leaving to become the current United Kingdom bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal​​. Also, he gets punched in the face.

    Countries featured: Mexico, Panama, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom

    Publications featured: The Mexico City News, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal

    Here are links to some of the things we talked about

    David's story on the UK university system - https://bit.ly/3szftyy

    Yaroslav Trofimov on WSJ.com - https://bit.ly/47AewFv

    David's story A Day in the Life of Baghdad - https://bit.ly/3SKiWoB

    His story on the Treasure of Nimrud in Iraq - https://bit.ly/3SMB692

    His story on the Iraq cigarette company - https://bit.ly/3R5jYKp

    His story on murder in Acapulco - https://bit.ly/47ksI5f

    His story on a high school kidnap ring - https://bit.ly/49KE8AY

    Mexico's Reforma newspaper - https://bit.ly/49CUpb7

    Letras Libras - https://letraslibres.com

    The Rest is History podcast - https://bit.ly/49FBYlT

    New Yorker story "How the Elderly Lose Their Rights" - https://bit.ly/3sFz3Js

    José de Córdoba's story on the Russian yacht in Antigua - https://bit.ly/40K1fr4

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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