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    A reporter's backstory – finding a way to humanize a global crisis

    Dec 12, 2018 4 minutes
    Peter Ford speaks to a man in Agadez, Niger, a town on the edge of the Sahara that has long been a hub of people smuggling.

    In our continuing series of profiles, let us introduce you to our Paris-based reporter at large, Peter Ford, who coordinated much of our On the Move coverage.

    Before returning to Paris, Peter was our bureau chief in Beijing for a decade. Before that, he served as the Monitor’s bureau chief in Moscow and Paris. Peter also worked as our Middle East correspondent, arriving in the region in 1990, just in time to cover the Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

    Why was this the moment to publish such an expansive series on this issue, and is the trend of migration shifting at all?

    We chose to focus on migration and its impacts on migrants

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