Stringer

At the age of 22, Anjan Sundaram left Yale with his master's in mathematics and turned down a Goldman Sachs job offer to travel to the Congo to work as a stringer, a freelance journalist...without any previous journalism experience. STRINGER depicts the dangerous 18 months Anjan spent in the Congo, earning fifteen cents for every word that he published. It is both a coming of age story as well as an inside look at the atrocities occurring in a country largely ignored by the rest of the world. Based on the memoir STRINGER: A REPORTER'S JOURNEY IN THE CONGO by Anjan Sundaram.