Percentage have you spent overseas . Pamela i guess close to half. First with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . Pamela well, my earliest interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills you may say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i traveled overseas as a tourist, two unusual places, and i began to think some of these same issues were definitely there and more and the struggles and problems were deeper and broader. And i just wanted to try that. Host what special skills does it take to be a Foreign Affairs journalist, as opposed to someone working domestically . Pamela i mean, there is a number of things i would not necessarily call them skills, but there is a number of ways you ha
I feel like i should start off by saying welcome home. Pamela thank you. Im delighted to be home. Host all told, how many years of your reporting career or percentage have you spent overseas . Pamela i guess close to half. First with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . Pamela well, my earliest interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills you may say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i raveled overseas as a tourist, two unusual places, and i began o think some of these same issues were definitely there and more and the struggles and problems were deeper and broader. And i just wanted to try that. Host what special skills does it take to be a Foreign Affairs journalist, as opposed t