"We are all foreigners somewhere", said Michael Phillips, Foreign Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and guest of this 'Foreign Press Podcast' episode. In a talk with journalist Patricia Vasconcellos, White House Correspondent for SBT and Board Member of the Club of Foreign Correspondents in the USA (AFPC-USA), Michael Phillips gives some insights about topics which are points of convergence among journalists working abroad. 

An experienced war correspondent and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, ​Michael Phillips is now based in Nairobi, Kenya. Phillips joined the WSJ as an economics reporter in Washington D.C. in 1996. After Sept. 11, 2001, he began nearly two decades writing about U.S. troops in the field in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.

Author of the book"The Gift of Valor," Phillips holds a Bachelor's degree in government from Harvard College and a Master's degree from the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. He previously worked for United Press International in Boston, the Associated Press in Madrid and Dow Jones Newswires in Washington, D.C.

This podcast is an educational program by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA (AFPC USA).