And when I returned, I didn't think of seminars, debates and extracts in foreign-policy magazines.

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Papers or magazines that have gutted foreign bureaus can now tap into open-source efforts like Ushahidi ( see story).

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Its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, which runs everything from foreign television networks to children's magazines, is growing and profitable.

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To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.

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Bergen has written about al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, counterterrorism, homeland security and countries around the Middle East for a range of American newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, TIME, The Nation, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Washington Times and Vanity Fair.

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