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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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  • 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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  • 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

    https://reut.rs/3DdVE0l

    https://tmsnrt.rs/37Xr67v

    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

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