BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Two years ago yesterday, I was awakened in Islamabad by an editor in Singapore calling me at 6 a.m. to tell me President Obama was going to make an announcement about Osama bin Laden. “What is it?” I asked blearily. “That he’s been killed,” he said, and waited a beat. “In Pakistan.”
One Giant Leap
Category: Dispatch, New Zealand, Reporting, Showcase Tags: Adventure, Chateau Franz, Dispatch, Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand, Skydive Franz, Southern Alps, The Wall Street Journal
I spent almost a month in New Zealand and realized, gosh, I hadn’t written much at all about this wonderful, magical place. Well, now that I’m back on dry land in Colombia, I have some time to finally catch up my blogging. After a three day crossing from Melbourne on the Bahia Negro, I, Read More
Category: Blog, Connections, New Zealand, Travel Tags: Auckland, Australia, Dunedin, Māori people, New Zealand, Personal, Queenstown, Rotorua, South Island
AUCKLAND—In a short while I’ll be casting off aboard the Bahia Blanca cargo ship en route to Manzanillo in Colon, Panama. I rather late in the game realized I hadn’t written anything publicly about New Zealand. This magical and marvelous country wore me out over the last month, and I feel a bit like, Read More
Category: Blog, Media, New Zealand, Travel Tags: Iraq, Media, New Zealand, Spanish, War
Ten years ago today, the United States began perhaps its costliest and most destructive foreign policy blunder. And as for many young journalists, it also allowed me to jump-start my career as a foreign correspondent. There’s a direct line between the decision to invade Iraq and me being in New Zealand as a burgeoning, Read More
Category: Blog, Iraq, Travel Tags: Criticism, Death, George W. Bush, Iraq, New Zealand, Osama bin Laden, War
I’m a former freelance conflict journalist and bureau chief for Reuters in Pakistan.
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