Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
This interview is part of the Institute's "Conversations with History" series, and uses Internet technology to share with the public Berkeley's distinction as a global forum for ideas.
Welcome to a Conversation with History. I'm Harry
Kreisler of the Institute
of International Studies. Our guest today is John Pomfret, foreign
correspondent for the Washington Post. He's been a journalist for ten
years and has covered the Congo, Bosnia, and China.
- Background ... family ... education
... first trip to China ... first reporting job ... foreign correspondent
- The Foreign Beat ... compared with
domestic reporting ... audience ... responsibilities of the journalist who
works abroad
- Covering China ... reporting on Tiananmen
... reassessing the student movement
- Foreign Correspondent in the Post - Cold War
World ... eyewitness to the unraveling of civilizations ... maintaining
objectivity
- Tales from the Abyss ... a Dutch solider
in Bosnia ... a Hutu in Zaire ... the response of moral individuals ... social
norms and civil society ... the influence of the church in Africa
- Lessons Learned ... attributes of
the foreign correspondent ... the failure of nongovernmental organizations
... preparing to be a foreign correspondent.
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