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Over nearly a decade as a New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof has managed to do the impossible - every week he gets away with devoting some of journalism's most valuable real estate to neglected, often depressing, causes. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has reported from 140 countries and raised awareness about Asian sex trafficking, public health crises in pre-earthquake Haiti, and the genocide in Darfur. Now he's the subject of Reporter, a documentary that premieres February 18 on HBO. TIME writer Amy Sullivan caught up with Kristof in-between his trips to Congo and the Middle East...
...definitely easier. Videos and sound really help bridge that gap. That's why I often travel with a videographer. We try to bring back some of the sights and sounds of places I go to. Half the Sky [the 2009 bestseller Kristof co-wrote with his wife, Sheryl Wudunn] also experimented with some techniques, like emphasizing individual stories and positive stories to deal with the problem that people tune out things that sound too depressing...
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...World Food Program targets schoolchildren with Food Force, which asks players to coordinate an emergency response during a food shortage. The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has teamed up with Games for Change to produce a game to complement his recent book, Half the Sky, which lays out a plan to fight global poverty. Players on social networks will take real-world actions - making microcredit loans, signing petitions - to advance. "We think it's a chance to reach beyond the choir," says Kristof...
...spoke to his interviewees in a nonchalant manner, as though the people and the experiences were common dinner conversation. “The Taliban has kind of screwed up their press relations by kidnapping reporters, now interviews are done over the phone,” noted Kristof. “Actually, I set up the interview with that warlord by emailing his press-handler...