73 subscribers
Go offline with the Player FM app!
Podcasts Worth a Listen
SPONSORED


A Rant or a Slant: When Should Reporters Speak From the Heart?
Manage episode 473693116 series 3599808
It’s easy to get frustrated with the charade reporters are supposed to keep up, where they pretend they don’t have opinions or feelings or any kind of human thoughts about a story they’re telling. Plenty of journalists have been trying to break out of that charade. But the decision to do that: it can be a fraught one, with real implications.
Dana Ballout struggled with this on a story she was investigating about Hassan Diab – a sociology professor who’s living as a free man in Canada, yet is convicted of a terrible crime in France. Dana and her co-host Alex Atack open up about their reporting on the series The Copernic Affair, and why Dana ultimately cut her own opinions out of the show, even though her co-host and editors wanted to include them.
And this prompts Brian to revisit his own experience dropping the charade in a previous podcast he made with Hamza Syed, for The New York Times and Serial: The Trojan Horse Affair.
You can check out The Copernic Affair wherever you get your podcasts or at https://www.canadaland.com/shows/the-copernic-affair/.
Same with The Trojan Horse Affair: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-horse-affair.html
To get the phrase from Hamza’s interview that we’re asking people to remix into something danceable, sign up for Brian’s newsletter here: www.kcrw.com/questioneverything
“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 episodes
Manage episode 473693116 series 3599808
It’s easy to get frustrated with the charade reporters are supposed to keep up, where they pretend they don’t have opinions or feelings or any kind of human thoughts about a story they’re telling. Plenty of journalists have been trying to break out of that charade. But the decision to do that: it can be a fraught one, with real implications.
Dana Ballout struggled with this on a story she was investigating about Hassan Diab – a sociology professor who’s living as a free man in Canada, yet is convicted of a terrible crime in France. Dana and her co-host Alex Atack open up about their reporting on the series The Copernic Affair, and why Dana ultimately cut her own opinions out of the show, even though her co-host and editors wanted to include them.
And this prompts Brian to revisit his own experience dropping the charade in a previous podcast he made with Hamza Syed, for The New York Times and Serial: The Trojan Horse Affair.
You can check out The Copernic Affair wherever you get your podcasts or at https://www.canadaland.com/shows/the-copernic-affair/.
Same with The Trojan Horse Affair: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-horse-affair.html
To get the phrase from Hamza’s interview that we’re asking people to remix into something danceable, sign up for Brian’s newsletter here: www.kcrw.com/questioneverything
“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 episodes
All episodes
×
1 Rümeysa Öztürk is Locked Up for an Op-ed: An Urgent Summit with the Student Newspaper that Published It 1:19:34

1 Pounding Beers in a Shed, and Other Dispatches from the War on Free Speech 27:49

1 Freedom of the press is great, until you're the target 41:26

1 The masterpiece Prince documentary Netflix won’t let you see. 48:42

1 He quit journalism to fight authoritarianism. How’s that going? 25:39

1 A Rant or a Slant: When Should Reporters Speak From the Heart? 41:15

1 A Teen, a Reporter, and a Grand Jury Leak (Over BBQ) 34:34

1 The News is Coming from Under the Desk… on TikTok (live from On Air Fest) 52:18

1 And The Award Goes To...The Circuit Court of The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit In and For Okeechobee County, Florida 37:46

1 A reporter? A spy? Or something else? Israel arrests its first American journalist. 58:22

1 Blindfolded And Arrested On Assignment In Israel 58:05

1 When Hollywood Tells The Truth: with Tom McCarthy, Antonio Campos, Tina Satter, and Tobias Lindholm. 49:49

1 Can AI tell us what stories to look out for? A live experiment. 31:38

1 Getting Ready to Interview Trump: An Exercise 40:41

1 Special Election-Eve Episode: The Story of a Story Untold 20:46


1 Can Journalism Save a Marriage? (featured on This American Life) 32:42

1 The Journalist and the Firefighter: How Predicting January 6 Led a Top Reporter to Quit Journalism 41:33

1 Journalists Question Everything: Ira Glass, Zoe Chace, Jonathan Eig, Astead Herndon 52:09

1 S-Town Host Brian Reed Meets His Harshest Critic 49:23

Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.