Lynsey Chutel - South Africa - Freelance (ex-Quartz, ex-AP)

<p>Should correspondents abroad for international publications like Associated Press, Reuters, NYT, etc be foreigners or locals? Lynsey Chutel (<a href='https://twitter.com/lynseychutel'>@lynseychutel</a>), a South African journalist who has been a staff reporter for Associated Press and startup website Quartz, can see both sides of the argument. But she also shares her frustration at a two-tiered system within many organizations that at its worst gives foreign parachute journalists massive benefits packages while reducing locals to stringers or fixers with no clear route to advance.</p> <p>We talk about growing up under apartheid (6:30), her first steps into journalism (12:23), how applying to Columbia journalism school on a lark kept her in the industry when she was considering leaving (17:20), realizing the dream of working at the AP and covering things like the Oscar Pistorius trial (30:50), a Columbia Journalism Review article on hiring foreigners vs locals (41:45), her story on how Chinese companies copied Congolese fabric patterns and ultimately killed their local textile industry (54:15) and finish on the lightning round, including a new question on work-life balance (1:02:00).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Columbia Journalism Review's "Rethinking foreign reporting at the AP" - <a href='http://bit.ly/37KfjEb'>http://bit.ly/37KfjEb</a></p> <p>Lynsey's story "China's role in the DR Congo's textile industry collapse - <a href='http://bit.ly/302fs37'>http://bit.ly/302fs37</a></p> <p>theSkimm newsletter - <a href='http://bit.ly/39QaRG0'>http://bit.ly/39QaRG0</a></p> <p>1619 podcast on Apple - <a href='https://apple.co/2tDskRr'>https://apple.co/2tDskRr</a></p> <p>Jill Lepore bio - <a href='http://bit.ly/2N4AsRL'>http://bit.ly/2N4AsRL</a></p> <p>Trailer for The Loudest Voice - <a href='http://bit.ly/2s2Y9T8'>http://bit.ly/2s2Y9T8</a></p> <p>Howard French's "A Continent for the Taking" - <a href='https://amzn.to/2Fqt1Aa'>https://amzn.to/2Fqt1Aa</a