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While U.S.-based journalists have adapted to remote reporting as social distancing has shut down American public life, international correspondents are making tough choices, like uprooting their lives to return home or braving the pandemic’s Italian epicenter in journalistic pursuit of the story.
Shona Koester spent the past six years at American Public Media, departing as VP of distribution and content partnerships.
“I made a decision that was very personal, very based on my own instincts about what was right and necessary in this kind of scary political moment.”
The reporter discusses how a not especially edgy meditation on journalistic standards got him fired.
The journalist believes public media’s standards for newsroom diversity and objective reporting are in conflict.
A new strategic plan calls for adding dozens of employees and digital ventures.
Seabrook argues that the real American political spectrum isn’t liberal–conservative, but insider–outsider.
Seabrook argues that the real American political spectrum isn’t liberal–conservative, but insider–outsider.
The show’s Wealth & Poverty Desk dives deep into a controversial topic.