Make Them Care: Crafting Narratives About Entrenched Social Problems
In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems.
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In this session, Nikole Hannah-Jones (The New York Times) and Chana Joffe-Walt (This American Life) talk about how to build a story structure that will make listeners care about even the most familiar, entrenched social problems.
They discuss the narrative and reporting techniques they used to help resurrect a long-dead discussion of school segregation in their Peabody-winning This American Life collaboration, and how to translate longform print journalism into the language of radio.
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Chana joined This American Life in 2014. Before that, she was a reporter for NPR where she helped create Planet Money . In 2015 she won a Peabody award for her shows on school segregation.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine covering racial inequality.