For years, Garrett Harte was the guiding hand behind Newstalk, shaping its tone and weathering its controversies. But his next career move took him all the way to north Africa

In the 1980s, getting a job in any aspect of media was seen as the beginning of a lifelong career. Things have changed since then. There are few jobs for life in today’s media, and the commonly held view is that you need to move about if you want to move up.

One man who has been moving about is Garrett Harte. For 15 years, he worked for Newstalk, eventually becoming its editor-in-chief. ...