Father and son

Letters from the Heart Podcast · Sep 15, 2025 · 8m

He showed me why I wanted to be a journalist—and why I had to quit journalism to truly experience life. To meet others. And above all: to meet myself.

His books awakened a nostalgia for the old days, when journalists were the first witnesses—sometimes the only ones—the messengers, the deliverers of truth. The journalist as an adventurer. A world narrator. A storyteller.

A time when texts were filed by telegram or dictated during costly overseas calls. When correspondents drank whiskey in hotel lobbies, waiting for informants to appear and lead them to the scene. When magazines devoted ten…