Let's make this birthday one to remember.

70 years old (Born on February 21, 1955)

Happy Birthday, James Brooke! From Voice of America’s frontlines in Russia, Bloomberg’s international spotlight, to your twenty-year odyssey crafting global headlines for The New York Times—you’ve truly seen it all and reported the rest. Your career itself reads like an epic novel that Hemingway wished he'd written.

May this birthday find you celebrating memorable scoops over breaking cakes rather than news. If life’s adventures continue to provide exclusives at every corner, we’ll know you're on the scene, notebook in hand—ready as ever to announce yet another thrilling chapter. Cheers to you for letting deadlines age gracefully while you don't!