In the space of an hour Longform’s hosts attempt to unpick how journalists got scoops,started their careers and brought enormous stories to the pageThe Longform podcast is ostensibly a simple conversation between hosts Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky and Evan Ratliff (CEO of media software company Atavist) and the author or editor of a news story. In reality, or it’s much more than that. The show is an hour-long meditation on the craft of writing,as well as the people behind the stories that are dominating the news cycle or those that slipped under the radar and deserve greater attention. The show offers a peek behind the curtain of the all-powerful media and frequently ends up revealing that the people reporting the news are the genuine stories. Related: The Show approximately Race: the podcast that gets genuine in not-so-post-racial America Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com