James Chater: Journalism & Its Relationship with Music | FORTE

I met James Chater, a journalist at Taiwan Plus, through unusual circumstances....
At Times Radio we invited him to speak to Mariella Frostrup for her On The Ground segment, keeping us all up to date with the political environment in his patch.
Here is our conversation where we discuss the nature of our work: journalism.
Timestamps:
(0:22) How did you end up in Taiwan as a journalist?
(5:23) The reality of freelancing
(12:52) Why don't you want to be a correspondent in the UK?
(22:33) Musician to Journalist: what was the pivotal point?
(37:13) The anxious expectation of knowledge acquisition
(47:55) Underlying connections between journalism and music?
(54:44) One thing to strive to improve in your life

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Pleasure to come across this thoughtful conversation.