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Reporter is a 2009 documentary film about the work of New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Executive produced by Ben Affleck and directed by Eric Daniel Metzgar, the HBO movie captures life in the war-ravaged African country and specifically focuses on the challenges faced by international correspondents in covering the region's crises. Production The documentary was filmed during the summer of 2007, when Kristof traveled to eastern Congo with Leana Wen, then an American medical student, and Will Okun, a high school teacher from Chicago. Wen and Okun were chosen to travel with Kristof as winners of the Second Annual Win A Trip with Nick Kristof contest, held in 2007 by The New York Times. Release Reporter premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on February 18, 2010. Reception In reviewing the film, Entertainment Weekly wrote: "In Reporter, he's a compelling figure, a cross between Mother Teresa and the James Woods character in Salvador, and what seals the intensity of his job is the danger." The Washington Post observed, "Ideally, [Kristof] hopes to teach his companions, who won a contest to travel with him, about the value of witnessing the world's atrocities and scintillating them into stories that will call on people to act."

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“Journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992).
“The newspapers were beginning to get on to Jaycie now. They had ignored her at first. Put things down to anyone and everything else. After all, it was a bit awkward for them having to do with a woman who was beautiful but apparently had no sex life; they didn’t know what to try and smear her with.”
— Naomi Mitchison, “Mary and Joe” in Harry Harrison (ed.) Nova 1, p. 163.
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”
— Nassim N. Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 21
“Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.”
— Joseph Addison, Tatler, No. 224.
“Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.”
— Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
“I do not care for the big 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.”
— Will Cuppy in Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft (eds.), Twentieth Century Authors, New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1942, p. 342.

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“Journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992).
“The newspapers were beginning to get on to Jaycie now. They had ignored her at first. Put things down to anyone and everything else. After all, it was a bit awkward for them having to do with a woman who was beautiful but apparently had no sex life; they didn’t know what to try and smear her with.”
— Naomi Mitchison, “Mary and Joe” in Harry Harrison (ed.) Nova 1, p. 163.
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”
— Nassim N. Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 21
“Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.”
— Joseph Addison, Tatler, No. 224.
“Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.”
— Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
“I do not care for the big 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.”
— Will Cuppy in Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft (eds.), Twentieth Century Authors, New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1942, p. 342.

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