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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.