Pavni Mittal is an award-winning international broadcast correspondent based in New York. In her 12+ years as a journalist, she has reported on everything including international business, foreign affairs, the United Nations, national politics in India and the U.S., the arts, and climate change for networks including Al Jazeera English, CNN International, PBS, ABC News, NBC News and CNBC. She holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.
Foreign reporting can be extractive - ‘stringers’ and ‘fixers’ are hired who have an ‘in’ with communities and a deep knowledge of countries and contexts. In many ways, these local journal...