ADVENTURES WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS CAMERAMAN GIANFRANCO STARA

FISHBONES, POPES, CORKS, COBBLESTONES AND AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Adventures with AP cameraman Gianfranco Stara This week my colleague Gianfranco Stara is retiring after 30 years working for the Associated Press. Gianfranco Stara and I were hired together in October of 1994 to open the AP Television office in Rome.  He was the cameraman, and in case …

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Pope Francis heads to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan

Dear Blog Readers, This isn’t a proper blog post, just a series of notes as I prepare to cover Pope Francis’s trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan this week.  I hope to be able to do a much more interesting and informed post when I get back. This is …

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Padua Notes

Last week my daughter donned a laurel wreath with a violet ribbon running through it and grinned from ear to ear as her friends chanted “Dott-O-Ray, Dott-O- Ray” – followed by some silly, lewd phrases that are not repeatable.  It is all part of the university graduation tradition in Italy. To graduate from an Italian …

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