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Michael Goldfarb

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Covers:  american politics, wars, british politics, middle east, arts and culture, Europe, Brexit, Kurdistan.
Host FRDH Podcast @ goldfarbpod.com. Substack frdhfirstroughdraftofhistory.substack.com Hear/Read: BBC, NYTimes, Guardian, FT

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Michael Goldfarb’s Biography

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Michael Goldfarb is the host of the FRDH, First Rough Draft of History, podcast and director of Certain Height, a production company making documentaries for BBC Radio networks.
He is in an American based in London and has been a foreign correspondent for more than 30 years. He has reported from 25 countries on five continents.
Throughout the 1990s he was NPR's London correspondent and then later a roving documentary maker for the NPR Boston affiliate, WBUR. His byline has appeared i…

Michael Goldfarb’s Journalist Portfolio

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Ukraine's nationalist party embraces Nazi ideology

Ukraine's nationalist party embraces Nazi ideology

Echoes of Hitler, part two. Meet Svoboda, an up-and-coming party in Ukraine. It's nationalist, pro-Nazi, and …

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FEDERALISM - V1.1 by Michael Goldfarb

FEDERALISM - V1.1 by Michael Goldfarb

The F-word: A history of Federalism. As the euro crisis drags on it has become clear that a more "federal" Eu…

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Letter from London: Why the euro has made it this far

Letter from London: Why the euro has made it this far

Letter from London: Why the euro has made it this far. The single currency's collapse was widely predicted a …

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This Is London - New York Times

This Is London - New York Times

London ANOTHER week, another flash of terrorism in my city, this one, thankfully, thwarted by the British sec…

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Inside Out Documentaries : British Jihad with Michael Goldfarb: WBUR Boston

Inside Out Documentaries : British Jihad with Michael Goldfarb: WBUR Boston

What is radical Islam's appeal to young British Muslims? Why did some September 11th hijackers find Britain a…

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England's shrinking middle class struggles to hold on

England's shrinking middle class struggles to hold on

An anxious middle class in the United Kingdom shares many of the same worries that keep the middle class in A…

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World Cup: Bread, Circuses and the Fruit of Migration

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By Michael Goldfarb
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The hard and fast rule of major global sporting events — Olympics or World Cup — is that in the months leading up to them there will be constant reports of impending disaster. Stadia unfinished, ticket prices sky high, general infrastructure collapse. Then, once the event starts, all is forgotten. People around the world watch in their billions. Because, as Juvenal pointed out, almost 2000 years ago, “bread and circuses” are what we want.
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America 200, America 250

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By Michael Goldfarb
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If you’re an American and were alive in 1976 do you remember where you were for America’s Bicentennial? I am, I was, and I do. I was in New York City’s Soho, having dinner at the Broome Street Bar with Meg Simon, casting director for producer Alexander Cohen, listening to her explain the job I was starting in two days with Mike Nichols. We could hear the fireworks and then watched as thousands of people streamed by on West Broadway when the show ended.
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Trivial Pursuits/Eternal Recurrence

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By Michael Goldfarb
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For months, I have avoided writing about the country where I live, Britain. There has been far too much to write about the country where I was born, America, and the country where I have no vote but whose actions are most likely to endanger me as a Jew, Israel. By comparison what has been going on in the country where I have lived for more than 40 years, has seemed unimportant. It is trapped in a time-loop where the same few events keep repeating.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering HS football & wrestling for Main Line Times while still in high school.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, when I was a temp secretary, never in a news room

How is social media changing news?

Adding one more knowledge set to be examined with professional skepticism. Who's information is trustworthy?

Awards

DuPont-Columbia Award

2002

For radio documentary Surviving Torture: Inside Out

Overseas Press Club of America

2004 - Lowell Thomas Award for Radio

For an hour-long documentary called, British Jihad: Inside Out. The documentary looked at why Britain had become a European center for jihadi recruitment.

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