When Spaceship Media's Erica Anderson found herself arguing with her mom over vaccines, she wanted to apply Spaceship's dialogue journalism techniques. What resulted was even more personal than anticipated. 

In this episode, Eve Pearlman and Erica Anderson discuss centering relationships and community when having conversations across differences, how Spaceship Media approaches dialogue journalism to inform those conversations, and how the approach played out in Erica’s conversations with her mom in their new podcast, The Wedge.

 

Episode chapters: (3:21) - Launching Spaceship Media and then The Wedge podcast (19:03) - The tension between journalism and authenticity (24:05) - Putting relationship and service first (30:54) - The great scale question (33:21) - Presenting facts in a way that people can hear them (36:31) - Vulnerability and using objectivity as a personal shield (39:08) - What does it take to do this work of dialogue journalism? (43:03) - Rapid-fire questions (56:22) - Fact check 

Resources:

• Spaceship Media: web, Twitter, Facebook
  • The Wedge podcast
  • Eve Pearlman: Twitter
  • Erica Anderson: Twitter

• Mentioned
  • The Criminal Under My Own Hat by T Bone Burnett
  • Think Again by Adam Grant
  • How Minds Change by David McRaney
  • Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
  • Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
  • Rabbit Hole podcast from The New York Times
  • Dead Eyes podcast by Connor Ratliff

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• Colorado Press Association: web, Twitter, Facebook
  • Tim Regan-Porter: bio, Twitter
  • Bay Edwards
  • Rachel Pickarski

 

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