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professional development session with thanassis cambanis [a4d08682]

Tags: grad school

  • Viability and impact are two different things

    • Viability is whether you can get funded
  • Think tank millieuis mostly funder driven now
  • started out as journo, then decided to get a masters
  • spent 5 years not getting paid writing
  • knowledge economy is hyper capitalized now

  • Why do a phd?

    • Only for personal development
    • Carefully weigh the fulfillment of the labor of a phd

  • Being a foreign correspondent

    • Learn the language
    • Constant parade of journalists into beirut learning and having learned arabic
    • Still a huge shortage of english speaking journalists with access and understanding about the region
  • cambanis@tcf.org