A Glimpse of the World: Citizen Foreign Correspondence

Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he began teaching in September 2008. From 1986 to 2008, Howard was a reporter for The New York Times, and 18 of those years, from 1990 to 2008, were spent working overseas... read more

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A Continent for the Taking

Africa first captivated New York Times journalist Howard W. French more than twenty-five years ago, but his knowledge of and passion for the continent has the depth of a lifetime association. His experiences there awakened him as nothing before to… read more

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Commentary & Reviews · Interviews

Sounds

Whale Music David Rothenberg
Miles from India Produced by Bob Belden
Goin’ Down Slow - Chess Blues: 1960-1967 Howlin’ Wolf
The Voice of Lightness Tabu Ley Rochereau
Yamfa Toumani Diabate with Ballake Sissoko

Snippets

Who is Prepared to be President? Nobody Richard Reeves - Universal Press Syndicate
The Paradox of a Paragon of Virtue Sally Jenkins - The Washington Post
The Olympics: An Alternative Medals Table Rowan Callick - The Australian
Africa: News Good Enough to Bury Roger Cohen - The New York Times
“Only China Can Produce This”: An Interview With Zhang Yimou Nanfang Zhoumou

Reading Table

What Does China Think? Mark Leonard
The Corpse Walker Liao Yiwu
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Pico Iyer
Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama
The Writer and the World V.S. Naipaul

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Citizen Foreign Correspondence (Nicholas D. Kristof - The New York Times)

July 25, 2008 4:02 PM

July 24, 2008

One result of the economic crisis facing newspapers and most other media outlets is that the number of foreign correspondents is plummeting. Here at the New York Times, we still have all of our foreign bureaus — partly because our strategy is to compete for readers who seek international news and analysis — but most newspapers and TV networks have been pulling back. Only four American newspapers now have foreign desks. And for a network, it’s very expensive to base a correspondent in London or Tokyo, and so much easier to film two people yelling at each other in a studio.

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