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In 2017, after spending more than 13 years covering Iraq and China for The New York Times, Edward Wong returned to the United States and began teaching international reporting at Princeton University.
When he wasn’t filing articles about foreign policy and overseas events as a Times correspondent, he was trying to impart lessons from his experiences inside a war zone and the world’s largest authoritarian state. He also discovered that the students weren’t the only ones learning.
“Teaching the basics of journalism reminds me of what matters most in reporting and writing,” Mr. Wong said. “How to find compelling stories and tell them with truth and accuracy, how to ask the important questions, how to keep in mind a moral vision for our work.”