Damon Tabor is a freelance magazine writer and documentary film producer whose work has focused on drug trafficking, black markets, conflict, and the environment. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Outside, Men's Journal and other publications. His article "Border of Madness" for Rolling Stone was optioned for the…

Emma Beals is an investigative journalist and producer from New Zealand who has focused on the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and the rise of ISIS since 2012. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Vice News, Raconteur Magazine, USA Today, Al Jazeera, and many other outlets. She is the 2017 James W. Foley World Press Freedom honoree and a nominee for the…

Ben Anderson is a filmmaker and writer who has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Brazil, Congo, Cambodia and beyond, with a focus on conflict, environmental devastation and pariah regimes. His full-length documentaries include This is What What Winning Looks Like and Battle for Marjah, which later became a book, No Worse Enemy: The Insi…

Azam Ahmed is Mexico, Central America and Caribbean bureau chief for The New York Times. While based in Afghanistan from 2012 to 2015, he wrote distinctive human interest stories at a time of waning foreign coverage. His reporting culminated in a New York Times Magazine feature about an Afghan police unit on the front lines of the fight against the…

Andrew Quilty is an Australian freelance photographer who has been based in Afghanistan since late 2013. His clients include The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Time and Harper’s. In 2016, he won a George Polk Award for his coverage of a deadly U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders clinic in the northern Afghan city of Kund…

Scott Anderson is a journalist and novelist whose stories on conflict have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, Men’s Journal and other publications. He has co-authored two books with his brother and fellow reporter Jon Lee Anderson. His piece "Fractured Lands," which chronicled the last two and a half decades in the Midd…

The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe discusses his latest feature story, an investigation into the Jean McConville murder, one of the most haunting crimes of the conflict in Northern Ireland. The guys learn about how Keefe managed the reporting and writing of this gripping, finely detailed story that spans over 40 years of history.…

Writer and filmmaker Jason Motlagh joins Burt and Max for a discussion of his National Magazine Award-winning Virginia Quarterly Review story, "The Ghosts of Rana Plaza." Jason talks about what it's like to do video and print journalism simultaneously, how he turned eyewitness testimony into a gripping narrative, and why it's important to just show…

Jody Rosen, critic-at-large for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, joins Burt and Max to discuss his decades-long exploration of the test given to London cabbies that requires them to completely master the city's geography. The guys hear how he was able to synthesize years of reporting to create "Lost Knowledge," his National Magazine Award-nomi…