Drinks for Five: Ira Glass, Zoe Chace, Jonathan Eig, Astead Herndon
Brian puts four journalists together in a room, gives them drinks, and starts rolling tape. Foremost on their minds: Why do people even share their stories with journalists in the first place?
Question Everything · Brian Reed
September 12, 202450m 54s
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<p dir="ltr">Brian puts four journalists together in a room, gives them drinks, and starts rolling tape. Their only instructions: show up with questions for each other and be ready to talk candidly about the challenges in their jobs. Foremost on their minds: Why do people even share their stories with journalists in the first place?</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You can hear Ira Glass and Zoe Chace on “<a href="http://www.thislife.org">This American Life</a>”. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Astead Herndon hosts “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/election-run-up-podcast">The Run Up</a>” for the New York Times. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Jonathan Eig’s book about Martin Luther King, Jr. is called “<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/king-a-life-a-life-jonathan-eig/18775295?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw_4S3BhAAEiwA_64YhqDTSjJK1FS2nrZ19epZ-0XTJoSfSxg99QTzERPDESr6wy7Py7LwxxoCcNsQAvD_BwE">King: A Life</a>”. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Since drinking and talking off the cuff doesn’t always result in the most precise utterances, here are a few corrections and clarifications from our fact-checker: In Astead’s story about the anti-immigrant group in St. Cloud, Minnesota, the quote was “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/politics/minnesota-refugees-trump.html">These people aren’t coming from Norway</a>,” not “Sweden.” The book Jonathan mentioned about adolescent cellphone addiction, by Jonathan Haidt, is called <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-anxious-generation-how-the-great-rewiring-of-childhood-is-causing-an-epidemic-of-mental-illness-jonathan-haidt/20144236?ean=9780593655030">The Anxious Generation</a>. There were a few people we were unable to track down to confirm the details of the stories told about them: the two police officers Jonathan mentioned, and the source’s family member who Astead said complained to him about his reporting. </p>
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