[3][4] For most of his career he worked as a foreign correspondent with The New York Times including home bases in Saigon, London, Nairobi and New Delhi.
[5] He started as a copyboy in his twenties, eventually being assigned as a foreign correspondent in Saigon, London, Belfast, Nairobi, New Delhi, then Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
[2][7] It dealt with the refusal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to admit more Jews during The Holocaust in World War II.
[2][7] Based on the Duke lacrosse case, it shows the struggles of an African American journalist who realizes the scandal is phony while covering it.
[5] He met Amy Pascal, a film industry executive, at The Peninsula Beverly Hills in 1996; they got married in 1997.