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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian... →
And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader... →
Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really... →
I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York... →
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the... →
I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they... →
I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized... →
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