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Apr 14
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Should there be foreign correspondents? ...

THE NEW HUMANITARIAN
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In this episode of Decolonise How?, host Patrick Gathara sits down with journalist Jane Ferguson to debate what role foreign correspondents should have in telling stories from crises, and why she now describes herself as a "recovering war reporter". 

"I had grown up with this sense of what a foreign correspondent was… but what I learned early on was that my impression was very self-absorbed," Ferguson says.

Decolonise How? is a new podcast by The New Humanitarian that examines the stories we tell about humanitarian crises.

 

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