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4. Rules and habits

Being a foreign correspondent means being an outsider. Is who we are an obstacle to getting to the real story?

For 大象传媒 International Editor Jeremy Bowen, good reporting involves empathy. But the job of a foreign correspondent means being an outsider.

Detachment was once considered a journalistic virtue, but does lived experience allow you to tell a story more accurately? Is who we are an obstacle to getting to the real story?

Jeremy speaks with: Dean Baquet - until 2022 the executive editor of the New York Times; Emily Bell - professor of the Columbia University Journalism School and a director of the Guardian Media Group; Nikole Hannah-Jones whose 1619 project won the Pulitzer Prize; former Reuters journalist Sabina Cosic and former 大象传媒 bureau chief Milton Nkosi.

Presenter: Jeremy Bowen
Producer: Georgia Catt
Assistant Producer: Sam Peach
Additional research: Rob Byrne
Series mixing: Jackie Margerum
Series Editor: Philip Sellars

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