I started out as a journalist 34 years ago in the newspaper business. I’m now a television producer, but my heart is still in print. Today, as newspapers and magazines face the specter of obsolescence, print journalism is poised at a crossroads from which it cannot turn back. Great work is still being published, but the contemporary reader must look harder than ever to find it. That’s why I was so happy a year ago to find Dispatches, then a new quarterly of foreign correspondence. Edited by Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight, Dispatches publishes a single-topic issue every three months, packed with excellent reporting and arresting photography. First-year topics have included Russia, Iraq, poverty, climate change, and the USA as seen from abroad.
   As a writer/editor who’s worked in the mainstream media for three decades, my journalistic values are old school, but I understand they won’t survive if they can’t keep pace with the sensibilities of the 21^st Century marketplace. With my first glance at Dispatches, I knew I’d found the real thing: deep-sourced, difficult reporting, conveyed through vivid writing and bold packaging. This is the stuff of Orwell, Fisk and Kapuściński. If you’re looking for frank analysis about what’s really happening in the world beyond America, and if you value great journalism, you must read Dispatches. You won’t regret a minute of it.