Films about Journalists Working in Asia, Made in Asia-Pacific

By Robin EwingAsia Pacific Journalism Review, 2021   The Journalist (2019, Japan) A dogged newspaper reporter hits the Tokyo streets to investigate an anonymous fax, something that apparently still happens in Japanese newsrooms, revealing mysterious plans for a...

Crossing the Mongolian Steppe

South China Morning Post, Post Magazine Nov. 3, 2013 by Robin Ewing A blond border guard wearing long braids waves us out of Russia – and the road immediately turns to dirt. Our van shudders through a barren no-man’s-land deep in the rocky Altai Mountains,...

Review of The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman

Global Media Journal 2011 By Robin Ewing The concept for Carl Hoffman’s book The Lunatic Express is ostensibly simple: to write a travel narrative about riding the world’s most dangerous conveyances. The idea was to experience mass transit as the majority of the world...

The Cold War’s last frontier

The San Antonio Express-News Jan. 14, 2007 By Robin Ewing Using the southern end of the rectangular cornflower-blue building as a shield in event of attack, a Republic of Korea solider trains one steady eye on North Korea. The other eye — presumably, as his...

Korea on the screen and on the page

San Antonio Express-News By Robin Ewing The existence of two Koreas is both a complex political conundrum as well as an emotional tug-of-war for the Korean people. It is estimated that 10 million people were separated from their families when Korea was divided, first...

History by the Book

Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine December 2005 By Robin Ewing Everything Virginia Grona needs for her job is listed in the 1908 Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog. The pages are crammed with intricate drawings of bicycles, furniture, clothing, appliances, food,...