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Boots on the Ground: the name of his blog says it all. Oh, there are millions of awesome people out there I could have chosen to stalk as I leech ideas and learn how to be a global citizen, but I always go back to Nicholas Kristoff. I started following the New York journalist on Twitter about a month ago, and since then have felt much more up-to-date on international affairs and practical developing world activism. His twice-weekly New York Times columns are innovative themselves, and he always brings interesting, relevant, and easy-to-apply lessons and stories to the table.
Nicholas Kristoff, beyond his humanitarian interests, embodies who and what I want to be. I have long dreamed of being a foreign affairs correspondent: a roving journalist who hits up the field, sends harrowing and stirring stories back home, then moves on. Yet not only has Kristoff's own adventures whetted my appetite for the same, he has also challenged me to not just be the surface journalist who goes in for a story and then gets out. Kristoff is an activist, and gets down with the dirt and grit in order to BE the story he writes. He's not so much of a hard-news hero like CNN's Anderson Cooper, but he brings honest feature-telling and thoughtful analysis to a wide variety of topics, and he re-visits those topics frequently in order to keep readers up-to-date and active in the respective issues and causes.
To see him for yourself, here's a recent post reflecting on electricity in developing countries. I have a hunch we'll be seeing updates on this
topic with more information and ideas for improvements as he travels and
writes in the coming months.
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/what-i-think-about-as-i...
I'm already following Kristoff on Twitter, but I plan to drop him a line this week as I continue following his blog...all the while getting more and more antsy to get my own "boots on the ground."
Nicholas Kristoff, beyond his humanitarian interests, embodies who and what I want to be. I have long dreamed of being a foreign affairs correspondent: a roving journalist who hits up the field, sends harrowing and stirring stories back home, then moves on. Yet not only has Kristoff's own adventures whetted my appetite for the same, he has also challenged me to not just be the surface journalist who goes in for a story and then gets out. Kristoff is an activist, and gets down with the dirt and grit in order to BE the story he writes. He's not so much of a hard-news hero like CNN's Anderson Cooper, but he brings honest feature-telling and thoughtful analysis to a wide variety of topics, and he re-visits those topics frequently in order to keep readers up-to-date and active in the respective issues and causes.
To see him for yourself, here's a recent post reflecting on electricity in developing countries. I have a hunch we'll be seeing updates on this
topic with more information and ideas for improvements as he travels and
writes in the coming months.
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/what-i-think-about-as-i...
I'm already following Kristoff on Twitter, but I plan to drop him a line this week as I continue following his blog...all the while getting more and more antsy to get my own "boots on the ground."
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