professional development session with thanassis cambanis

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