Author: Kate Bartlett
2019 WPI Fellow
Bio: Kate Bartlett is a Zimbabwean-born journalist who was reported from Cambodia, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Congo, and Bosnia among other places. She started her career at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, then went to Agence France Presse as an Asia editor, and is currently Southern and East Africa correspondent for Deutsche Presse Agentur, the German press agency.
Twitter: @bartlettkate
A life in two parts: Deborah Feldman on her 'Unorthodox' story https://t.co/fNtBBzSSal via @dpa_intl
7. šæš¦ "Coronavirus became the worldās biggest news story not when it was ripping through Wuhan, but when it hit Western Europe. For us who covered the Ebola outbreak, this was not surprising, although it is still depressing," writes our JF @bartlettkate https://t.co/oGpKPZ3jeq
I have friends in #COVID19 state quarantine in both Russia and Japan right now, guess which meal is from which... š¤£
2Posts by Kate Bartlett:
How I met the Mooch
I had a run-in with āthe Moochā recently. I spoke to former White House adviser Anthony Scaramucci outside an event of his in Austin, Texas, and, um, it got a bit awkward. When he learned I was from South Africa, the Mooch said sarcastically that he supposed things...
Out with the old, in with the… news?
The first newsroom I worked in had rats, and Iām not just speaking about the bosses. It was in an old two-story shophouse in Phnom Penh, and we frequently saw vermin in the kitchen. The computers were out of the 1980s and the walls were stained. On humid, rainy...
Mayor Pete and gay rights in America
When a little-known politician named BarackĀ Obama first announced he was running for president I didnāt think heĀ stoodĀ a chance.Ā Ā āSadly,Ā Americans will never vote for a black president,ā I told my friends. I hadnāt spent any real time in the United States back then...
