Make Them Care: Crafting Narratives About Entrenched Social Problems (2016)
from Third Coast Pocket Conference
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.Recorded at the 2016 Third Coast Conference.
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