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I received the following email:
Dear professor Andrew Gelman,
My name is **, a resident correspondent of **. I am writing to request for an interview via email. We met once at New York Foreign Press Center one week ago.
As you may know, President Obama will travel to China, Burma and Australia from November 10-16. In China from November 10-12, President Obama will attend the APEC Leaders Meeting and APEC CEO Summit. . . .
Could you please make a comment on what kind of impacts APEC will have . . .
Looking forward to your response.Thanks.
Best regards,
**
I replied: Hi, sorry, this is outside my area of expertise. You should ask my colleague Andrew Nathan in the poli sci dept at Columbia.
And then the correspondent wrote back:
Thank you very much for your reply. I will have a try to contact your colleague. I will be grateful if you can tell me your colleague’s email. thanks again. wish you have a nice weekend.
I didn’t reply to this one. I think a reporter should be able to find someone’s contact information! (Pro tip: try googling *andrew nathan columbia political science*.)
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