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Nepal News Coverage ‘Vital’ to Recovery
Journalists spur worldwide interest, international aid, and long-term follow-through. As a foreign correspondent, John Schidlovsky reported from Beijing, Beirut, Cairo and New Delhi, among other consequential capitals. As founding director of the International Reporting Project (IRP) he’s led delegations of journalists on 26 trips, mostly to underdeveloped — and underreported-on — countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. But Schidlovsky had never experienced anything like the earthquake in Nepal, which hit April 25. “It seemed to go on and on without ending, and the room just seemed to be swaying and going in circles,” said Schidlovsky, who had arrived in advance of an IRP trip to Nepal. Speaking with his feet now firmly planted back home in Washington, D.C., Schidlovsky recalled that “after what seemed like an eternity — 80 seconds — that rumbling and shaking and bobbing and weaving just...
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