Shrapnel, Snakes and Blistering Rage: On the Occupational Hazards of a Foreign Correspondent

Filed under: Ideas by Jeremy on Monday, 20th December 2010 at 10:45 am

That’s the eye-catching name of this year’s Dalton Camp Lecture given by the Globe and Mail’s South Asia correspondent Stephanie Nolen. In her current position and from her experience as the Globe and Mail’s Africa correspondent she has covered malnutrition, AIDS, the rise and fall of dictators, rigged elections, corruption and has won a number of journalism awards along the way. Nolen has more stories to tell from a day’s work than I have in five years. The lecture is about her five rules of how to be a great journalist but includes stories about a world that most of us are only dimly aware of. You can listen to the lecture here.

Nolen also has a book called 28 Stories of AIDS, which you can check out here, or listen to her talk about it in this video:

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