"I think some of the best reporters are……" — John Pomfret
"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 fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences."
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27 Quotes by John Pomfret
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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in…
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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are…
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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I…
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and…
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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have…
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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
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