![]() ![]() Deciding to cover the piracy angle, Bahadur contacted journalists in Somalia and made arrangements with Radio Garowe. Initially, Bahadur wanted to visit Somalia to write about the election in the northwestern part of the country, but the news coverage of the hijacking and capture of the MV Faina by Somali pirates in September 2008 made him switch gears. He has written for The New York Times, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, The Times of London, and he has worked for CBS News as a freelance correspondent. ![]() Interested in working as a journalist, Bahadur was told by real journalists to avoid going to school to study journalism and to obtain experience working as a freelancer in "crazy places" instead. In 2008, he was working for a market research firm in Chicago. Educated at the University of Toronto Schools, he attended the University of Toronto, graduating in 2007 with a B.A. ![]() Bahadur lives in Nairobi, Kenya.īahadur was born in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His first book, The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (2011), is his account of living with the pirates for several months in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in the northeast of Somalia. ![]() Bahadur has also worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS News and he has advised the U.S. He became known for his reporting on piracy in Somalia, writing for The New York Times, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Times of London. Jay Bahadur (born 1984) is a Canadian journalist and author. The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (2011) ![]()
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