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Anna Fifield - award-winning journalist, author, and editor

This time our guest is the remarkable Anna Fifield - award-winning journalist, author, and editor. We had a wide-ranging conversation about life as a foreign correspondent, the challenges of writing a book about Kim Jong-un at 3.30 am in the mornings as well as doing her day job, and coming home to New Zealand as editor of the Wellington newspaper The Dominion Post.

Anna Fifield is an award-winning journalist, author, and editor. Anna, the editor of the Wellington newspaper The Dominion Post, has previously reported for the Financial Times and The Washington Post from London, Washington, Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing. Anna is the author of a celebrated biography of Kim Jong-un titled The Great Successor.

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