Damien Cave: New York Times, America and Australia

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Josh Szeps

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Damien Cave is the Vietnam bureau chief and global affairs correspondent for The New York Times, covering shifts in power across Asia and the wider world.

He has spent most of the past 20 years as a correspondent for The Times. He’s been based in Baghdad and Miami, Mexico City and Sydney, and spent lengthy stints reporting from many other places, including Lebanon, India, Taiwan, Turkey and Cuba.

In 2017, He led a team opening The Times’s new Australia bureau, covering a region where both his grandfathers served in World War II, and inspiring him to write a book titled “Into the Rip” in Australia and, in the United States, “Parenting Like an Australian: One Family’s Quest to Fight Fear and Dive into a Better, Braver Life.”

Before that, from 2014 to 2017, Damien was a deputy editor on the National desk, advancing the digital development of The Times.

In 2007, He was part of a team of finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for our coverage of the war in Iraq. The team also won an Overseas Press Club award that year, his second — the first one was for a humor essay about Paraguay.

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0:00.0	Gahy humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. One of the most fascinating books
0:07.3	that I've read about the experience of an American moving to Australia, comparing the two
0:13.4	cultures, comparing the upsides and downsides of each and sort of taking some lessons from
0:18.9	America to Australia and vice versa, is a book called
0:22.1	Into the Rip. That's its name in Australia. The American publication is called Parenting
0:26.9	Like an Australian, One Family's Quest to Fight Fear and Dive into a Better, Braver Life.
0:35.4	You've got to love those subtitles that the publishers make you put on your
0:37.8	books. There you go. It's basically about what today's guest, Damien Cave, learned about
0:43.7	the Australian culture by his involvement in what's called Nippers, which is where we train young
0:48.8	Australians to get good at beach sports and swimming and life-saving and so on. And Damien threw
0:54.1	himself into this as well.
0:55.9	He was coming to Australia in order to set up the New York Times Bureau in Australia.
1:01.4	And he's been the Bureau Chief of the New York Times ever since.
1:04.4	We touch a little bit about his thoughts on the fate of the mainstream legacy media
1:09.4	and the sort of great awokening of 2020 and what went
1:13.2	down at the Grey Lady, the Great Masked, during that period of time. But really Damien is most
1:18.4	interesting in his cultural and political observations about what sustains good society and a happy
1:24.1	thriving culture. Damien has been a bureau chief and global affairs correspondent for the New York Times from all over the world.
1:30.6	He has a tremendous pedigree.
1:32.4	He was part of a team of finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, thanks to his work on the war in Iraq.
1:38.6	I hope you enjoy as much as I did, the one, the only, Damien Cave.
1:43.3	We both have connections to Worcester.
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