Foreign correspondents Jeremy Gavron and Nick Seeley discuss the trials and tactics of reporting the world. Have their experiences translated through the news outlets they work for. They share some of their stories that remain, shamefully, untold.
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Open in MapsNick Seeley is an international journalist who got his start in Cambodia, and has spent more than a decade reporting from the Middle East. He is the author of the nonfiction Kindle Single A Syrian Wedding, about life in a refugee camp in Jordan, and the novel Cambodia Noir. Originally from Fairfax, Virginia, Seeley studied theatre before going into journalism, and has written numerous plays and screenplays, appeared in small roles in several films, and run a small non-profit theatre company in Amman. He currently lives in permanent transit.
Jeremy Gavron is the author of six books, including his new memoir A Woman on the Edge of Time, which tells the story of his mother’s suicide when he was four years old and his quest, four decades later, to discover who she was and why she killed herself. A former foreign correspondent in Africa and Asia, he now teaches fiction at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. He is married with two daughters (and an Australian godson).
Rod Nordland is currently a correspondent-at-large for the New York Times. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he has been part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team for news, was a finalist for a Pulitzer in international reporting, and has worked as a foreign correspondent in over 150 countries. During three decades abroad, he has covered every war that involved Americans and several that did not. Rod is a native of Philadelphia, where he has a large extended family, and his immediate family lives in England.
