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Hey, How'd You Become WSJ's Asia Correspondent, Patrick Barta?

How freelancing in Costa Rica helped him go from Texas to Thailand

By Jen Swanson – June 11, 2008
The Wall Street Journal's Bangkok-based correspondent Patrick S. Barta talks about getting started, new media, the best and worst things about working for a major news organization overseas, and what happens when two-plus billion people in China begin to eat as much beef as Americans.

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