John Pomfret

I've been shot at on numerous occasions. ↗

— John Pomfret

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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything. ↗

— John Pomfret

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My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd. ↗

— John Pomfret

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One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life. ↗

— John Pomfret

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

— John Pomfret

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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively. ↗

— John Pomfret

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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. ↗

— John Pomfret

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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. ↗

— John Pomfret

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

— John Pomfret

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

— John Pomfret

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