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Mark Leon Goldberg
Sep 21, 2023
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Rwanda, 2008

I started my career as a journalist in the early 2000s, covering politics and foreign policy for a small monthly magazine in DC, the American Prospect. I was an early adopter of blogging and since 2005 anchored a blog about the United Nations called UN Dispatch, which is still going strong. I was a very early adopter of podcasting and 10 years ago started Global Dispatches — World News That Matters, which is the longest running independent international affairs podcast. (Two episodes a week, every week, since 2013!)

Throughout it all, my focus has been on global stories that do not get the attention they deserve. These stories are often overlooked by the media because they don’t directly impact the lives of people in wealthier countries. Often, these stories have little commercial appeal. (It’s hard to sell ads against stories about, say, how climate change is fueling famine in Southern Madagascar). But these stories are vitally important for understanding the totality of …

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