Why an ex-congressman is living in a ‘safe house’ from Trump (PDF Version)
Washington Post
Why an ex-congressman is living in a ‘safe house’ from Trump (PDF Version)
Washington Post
Henry Kissinger leaves behind a poisonous legacy of callous geopolitical calculus (PDF Version)
The Globe and Mail
A Brutally Honest Exploration of What It Means to Be a War Reporter
The New York Times
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
MekongReview
US Policies opened the door to the Taliban and Khmer Rouge
The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document
The New York Times
I Don’t Want My Role Models Erased
The New York Times
Why a 65-year-old grandmother is freely flying to probable imprisonment in Cambodia
The Washington Post
Writers on Writers: Scribes Offer Insights on 2018 Awards Contenders
Variety.com
The Women Who Covered VietnamThis year Australia put the journalist Kate Webb on a stamp to commemorate the country’s Veterans Day. It is a reproduction of a famous photo of Kate wearing a safari shirt, holding open her notebook while looking intently at the subject of an interview.
By recognizing Kate, who covered the Vietnam War for United Press International, as a “woman in war,” the stamp quietly acknowledges what has been glossed over in the annals of the conflict. Female reporters covered that war, rewriting the rules so that the phrase “woman war correspondent” would never again be an oxymoron…READ MORE
Book Review: Eisenhower and Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action and the Origins of the Second Indochina War by William J. Rust
London School of Economics and Political Science
Reporting massive human rights abuses behind a façade
Columbia Journalism Review
Testifying at Khmer Rouge Genocide Trial – February 2015
BY GEORGE WRIGHT | FEBRUARY 10, 2015
U.S. journalist Elizabeth Becker on Monday recounted dramatic stories at the Khmer Rouge tribunal of meeting Pol Pot in 1978 on a trip to Cambodia and later being awoken by gunshots as an academic in her traveling party was murdered.
READ MORE: First Day | Last Day
Journalist Tells of Trip to Pol Pot’s Phnom Penh
The Cambodia Daily
For Cambodia, an Oscar nod means much more than box-office gold
Los Angeles Times
AUDIO: Speech: “From Kent State to the Khmer Rouge
Ohio University, April 17 – 40th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and beginning of the Khmer Rouge rule
Journalists don’t always testify at tribunals. Here’s why I did.
The Washington Post
For Cambodia, an Oscar nod means much more than box-office gold
Los Angeles Times
Cambodians Refuse to Accept Rigged Elections
YaleGlobal Online
Articles posted below are from 2011. Archived articles will be available soon.
Silencing Cambodia’s Honest Brokers – The New York Times
Podcast on sustainable tourism
After the Travel Collapse, Build Tourism Back Better
Foreignpolicy.com
Southeast Asia is Ground Zero in the New U.S.-China Conflict—and Beijing Is Winning
Foreignpolicy.com
How hard will the coronavirus hit the travel industry?
www.nationalgeographic.com
Conde Nast Traveler names Elizabeth Becker one of the people changing how we travel
Conde Nest
Arctic crush: Norway combats overtourism
Travel Weekly
My appearance on BBC World News discussing runaway tourism.
Overtourism Expert Elizabeth Becker on Airbnb, Costa Rica, and the Romance of Travel
Conde Nast Traveler
Tourism takeover: Chinese travelers changing the industry
Travel Weekly
Sustainable Canada: Tackling overtourism: Travel Weekly
Travel Weekly
Only governments can stem the tide of tourism sweeping the globe
The Guardian
Barcelona: Taming tourism
Travel Weekly
Bordeaux: Tourism’s gold standard: Travel Weekly
Travel Weekly
What I learned from my ‘Overbooked’ promotion tour
Travel Weekly
Cruise Ships Are Unregulated Trouble on the High Seas
The New York Times
El turismo es un asunto de democracia
El Pais
The Revolt Against Tourism
The New York Times
Tourist Trap: The Risks and Rewards of the Global Travel Industry
Cruise Ships Are Unregulated Trouble on the High Seas
The New York Times
Destination Nowhere: The Dark Side of the Cruise Industry
The Saturday Evening Post
13 Big Questions on the Future of Travel
Intelligent Travel – Quote by Elizabeth Becker
Millions travel the world, seeking the sacred
The Washington Post
The Big Idea: How Tourism Can Destroy the Places We Love
The Daily Beast
Foreign travel has doubled in less than 20 years, but Overbooked author Elizabeth Becker says our summer trips are destroying the places we most love—like Venice, Cambodia, and the Taj Mahal.
‘Overbooked’: Elizabeth Becker on the Business of Travel
Knowledge @ Wharton
In this interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Becker discusses the role that both individuals and countries must play as the tourism industry undergoes significant change. OVERBOOKED is now on the recommended reading list of some Wharton alumni clubs around the world.
Is Tourism the Most Destructive Enterprise?
Tourism explodes with globalization, enriching lives but destroying nature and culture
YaleGlobal, April, 23 2013
Global development’s star player hangs up her jersey
Devex
Few U.S. secretaries of state have reached the iconic stature of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She leaves that office after four years with her rock-star status solidified and the informal title of the most famous woman in the world…
Over the years I have profiled people I have known in war and around war. In those dramatic moments, a person’s character comes out as rarely happens in peace.
Something different: HAVRE DE GUERRE (Haven in War)By Jean-Francois Bouvet, is a book in French about the correspondents who covered the war in Cambodia. As you can see from the cover, he focuses on my reporting and the hotel where we lived. It’s an honor to be remembered in such a fine book, published by Fayard.