The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.
I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental… - Anjan Sundaram
I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental…
- Anjan Sundaram
The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and jo… - Anjan Sundaram
The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and jo…
The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in … - Anjan Sundaram
The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in …
My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can,… - Anjan Sundaram
My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can,…
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and ou… - Anjan Sundaram
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and ou…
I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in the stories we tell each oth… - Anjan Sundaram
I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in the stories we tell each oth…
My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could in powerful events that I thought would b… - Anjan Sundaram
My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could in powerful events that I thought would b…
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. The… - Anjan Sundaram
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. The…
Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that ga… - Anjan Sundaram
Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that ga…
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