Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson
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Reporting Overseas
Reporters are conditioned to at least have a couple of stories a week where you get up in the morning and say, I'm going to report on story X. Especially in a place like China where it's hard to get information, it's a lot more like cooking a stew with ingredients haphazardly. It can be really frustrating that nobody will return your phone calls. That leads you to human rights stories because advocacy groups will talk to you. The government won't talk to you anyway so there's not really much point in trying. In a day you... And there's a guy bleeding in front of you. So to speak, right? Yeah, exactly.
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