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Time Magazine Reporter Visits Journalism Class

Foreign correspondent for Time magazine, Aryn Baker, visited the Beginning and Advanced Journalism class on Thursday, sharing stories as a reporter overseas, how she got into journalism, and her contributions to the Person of the Year issue, which came out on Wednesday.
“It’s important that journalists remain balanced,” she said, responding to one student’s question about advice she would give young reporters who are writing about current events. “ Sometimes [younger writers] can put their opinions first, and we have to show both sides. That’s our job.”

After attending culinary school and becoming a pastry chef in Paris, Baker decided to make a career change and enrolled in the journalism graduate program at UC Berkeley. “I was miserable being a chef and asked myself, what do you really love to do? I knew I loved writing and reading and travel.”

Her first day on the job as an intern in Time’s Hong Kong bureau was 9/11. Because of the subsequent acceleration of the news cycle, Baker says she “went from being an intern to an editor,” in one day. From there, she went on to cover the Ebola crisis in Africa and the Taliban in Afghanistan. When she started out, there were 36 foreign correspondents for Time stationed all over the world, she said. Now she is one of four.

“Journalism is a very satisfying career,” she told students. “No one does it for the money.”
 
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