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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 ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv 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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