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Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia by John McBeth

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July–August 2011, no. 333

Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia by John McBeth

Talisman Publishing, $42 hb, 384 pp

Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia by John McBeth

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July–August 2011, no. 333

From childhood on a dairy farm in the flats beneath Mount Egmont, in New Zealand, John McBeth rose to become a senior foreign correspondent with the Far Eastern Economic Review, one of Asia’s most influential English-language news magazines. Like other old-school journalists, he asserts at the beginning of his highly entertaining memoir that no one can be ‘taught’ journalism; you are either born one, or not. So it proved in his case. A liberal arts education might have made the younger John a more reflective autodidact, but possibly not a more successful journalist.

Richard Broinowski reviews 'Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia' by John McBeth

Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia

by John McBeth

Talisman Publishing, $42 hb, 384 pp

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