Quotes John Pomfret

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the expe...

And the AP sent me to China very quickly....

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to ...

And when they do spin out of control there are important ram...

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find n...

But the difference is that in an overseas assignment there i...

For me the much more significant question is what did the Am...

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to ...

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when ...

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasi...

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can real...

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zair...

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in...

I think you're a witness and a recorder....

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China,...

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the g...

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper i...

I've been shot at on numerous occasions....

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because ...

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, b...

On the other hand, the scrutiny that local coverage comes un...

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is ...

So I started studying China very early....

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncov...

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doin...