How to Get Ahead by Moving Away, Part II

More on the foreign correspondent path to becoming a journalist

Illustration by Midjourney

If you’re looking to go abroad to boost your journalism career, you can choose somewhere relatively safe or go somewhere a little more risky.

Haley Sweetland Edwards, who later worked at TIME magazine, chose the latter path, bootstrapping her career spending some time in Yemen.

How did you end up freelancing overseas? 

I graduated…