Looking for a Career as a Foreign Correspondent Today
Thursday, February 22, 2024 12:20 pm – 2:00 pm CET/GMT+1W15 Cafe
The news industry has been in decline for decades, but the latest round of layoffs, closures of foreign news bureaus worldwide, and increased hostility against journalists leave little room for optimism for the young generation considering their chances entering this field. “How do you become a foreign correspondent?” became a question with seemingly no satisfying and universally applicable answer. This shift isn't due to a lack of talent among aspiring journalists, but rather to the features of the world that have changed and the opportunities that were unique to a specific era of the past.
Journalist Joshua Yaffa, in conversation with a BCB student, Jakub Laichter, discusses strategies for the new generation to enter this ever-diminishing field, drawing on their own experiences and reporting from Ukraine. No registration required.
Joshua Yaffa, a correspondent for The New Yorker and the writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin, has spent a career reporting and writing on Russia and Ukraine.
Jakub Laichter, a BCB student and a freelance photojournalist focusing on Eastern Europe, has been covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2019.
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