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Theo Padnos is a journalist and author of the book Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment.“I'm trying to tell a story about a person who's attracted to dangerous places and people. I think we all have that within us. I wanted to bring my readers along. So I selected details that we all have in common... I'm trying to invite you along on a journey that you yourself might have taken.”

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00:30 Blindfold (Theo Padnos • Simon & Schuster • 2021)

03:00 My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse: A Teacher’s Notes (Theo Padnos • Random House • 2004)

03:15 Undercover Muslim: A Journey Into Yemen (Theo Padnos • Bodley Head • 2011)

10:30 "My Captivity" (Theo Padnos • The New York Times Magazine • October 2014)

12:00 "Life as a Hostage in Syria" (Polly Mosendz • The Atlantic • October 2014)

22:15 Theo Who Lived (David Schisgall • 2016)

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Donovan X. Ramsey is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in GQ, WSJ Magazine, The Atlantic, and many other publications.“I actually got into writing about criminal justice ... because I was curious about Black life. But that meant the only way I was able to do that was I had to kind of do this really often depressing slice of Black life. And there’s so much more. And there’s so much beauty in the lived experiences of Black people. … There are so many stories that just never get told about Black life. One, I have a connection to being a Black person, but then being a Black person who has the benefit of a really good education, and I’ve been given some shots here and there… it feels like a duty. If I’m not going to tell these stories, then who?”

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02:00 Exit Scam (Aaron Lammer and Lane Brown • Treats Media • 2021)

02:00 "Gossip Girls, Money Men, and 2 More Podcasts Worth Trying" (Nicholas Quah • Vulture • May 2021)

02:00 Nicholas Quah on Longform Podcast

03:00 70 Over 70 (Max Linsky • Pineapple Street Studios • 2021)

25:00 Ramsey's Atlantic archive

26:00 Ramsey's Ebony archive

26:00 "Motorcycle Club Honors, Assists Soldiers Offering Their Lives Overseas" (Black Enterprise • Nov 2012)

26:00 "Janelle Monáe: The ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’ Speaks [INTERVIEW]" (Ebony • Jul 2013)

29:00 She’s Every Woman: The Power of Black Women in Pop Music (Danyel Smith • Dey Street Books • 2017)

31:00 "Police Reform Is Impossible in America" (Gawker • Feb 2015)

32:00 Ramsey's Demos archive

35:00 Jason Parham on Longform Podcast

40:00 Ramsey's The Marshall Project archive

40:00 Ramsey's Complex archive

45:00 "A Triple Murder, a Broken Family, and the Long Tail of the Crack Era" (Vice • Aug 2016)

47:00 Black Futures (Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham • One World • 2020)

48:00 "Measuring Crack Cocaine and Its Impact" (Roland G. Fryer • Apr 2006)

56:00 "Bryon Stevenson’s Moral Clarity" (WSJ Magazine • Nov 2019)

56:00 "The Political Education of Killer Mike" (GQ • Jul 2020)

62:00 "NASCAR’s Unlikely Activist" (GQ • Aug 2020)

63:00 Ramsey's Los Angeles Times archive

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Adam McKay is a film director, writer, and host of the podcast Death at the Wing.“Sometimes you do a project and then you look back and you’re like, Ah, shit. I let some of myself get in the way of that. It sucks, but it’s also a part of it. And there are so many times where you’re excited that the story did take off, the wind did catch the sail and it went off on its own. And that just feels so good that it far outweighs the times when you make a mistake, or let something go wrong, or too long, or hit the wrong tone. Which is going to happen. There’s no way around it. But those times when it all just catches perfectly—it’s just so exciting that you keep doing it.”

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00:00 Anchorman (Dreamworks • 2004)

00:00 Stepbrothers (Columbia Pictures • 2008)

00:00 The Big Short (Paramount Pictures, New Regency Productions • 2015)

00:00 Vice (Annapurna Pictures • 2018)

00:00 Succession (Gary Sanchez Productions • 2018)

00:00 Death at the Wing (Hyperobject Industries and Three Uncanny Four • 2021)

12:00 The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (George Packer • Farrar, Straus and Giroux • 2014)

14:00 Don’t Look Up (Hyperobject Industries • 2021)

29:00 David Grann on Longform Podcast

31:00 Anchorman 2 (Paramount Pictures • 2013)

36:00 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis • W. W. Norton & Company • 2015)

39:00 Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria • Annapurna Pictures • 2019)

40:00 "The Hustlers at Scores" (Jessica Pressler • The Cut • Dec 2015)

41:00 "Breslin: Digging JFK grave was his honor" (Jimmy Breslin • New York Herald Tribune • Nov 1963)

43:00 Bad Blood (Excellent Cadaver)

43:00 Bad Blood (John Carreyrou • Vintage • 2020)

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Anna Sale is the host of Death, Sex & Money. Her new book is Let’s Talk About Hard Things.“What hard conversations can do is—you can witness what's hard. You can be with what's hard. Admit what's hard. That can be its own relief. … Some hard conversations … are successful when they end in a place that's like, Oh, we're not going to agree on this. … I think you can get used to the feeling of feeling out of control and that makes them less scary.”

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07:00 Let’s Talk About Hard Things (Simon & Schuster • 2021)

10:00 Sale's Death, Sex & Money archive

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Brooke Jarvis is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.“Obsession is inherently interesting. We want to know why somebody would care so much about something that it could direct their whole life. ... When people care about something a lot, what can be more interesting than that to understand what drives those powerful emotions? ... Part of why I do this work is that I am able to get temporarily obsessed with a lot of different things and then move on to the next thing that I'm temporarily obsessed with. ... There's always a new question that I want to follow.”

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Jarvis on Longform

02:00 "Maryville native Brooke Jarvis wins Livingston Ward for young journalists" (Amy Beth Miller • The Daily Times • Jun 2017)

05:00 The New Kings of Nonfiction (Ira Glass • Riverhead Books • 2007)

06:00 "The Squirrel Wars" (D.T. Max • New York Times Magazine • Oct 2007)

08:00 "When We Are Called to Part" (The Atavist • Nov 2013)

11:00 Jarvis’ Yes! Magazine archive

16:00 "The Deepest Dig" (California Sunday • Nov 2014)

19:00 "Unclaimed" (California Sunday • Dec 2016)

22:00 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers • Marina Books • 1940)

25:00 "The Insect Apocalypse Is Here" (New York Times Magazine • Nov 2018)

27:00 "Who Speaks for Crazy Horse?" (New Yorker • Sep 2019)

30:00 "The First Shot: Inside the Covid Vaccine Fast Track" (Wired • May 2020)

31:00 "The Scramble to Pluck 24 Billion Cherries in Eight Weeks" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2020)

33:00 "The Launch" (California Sunday • Jul 2019)

37:00 "The Forgotten Sense" (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2021)

39:00 "The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger" (New Yorker • Jul 2018)

 

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Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung are investigative reporters at ProPublica. They won the George Polk Award for Health Reporting for their coverage of the meatpacking industry's response to the pandemic, including their feature "The Battle for Waterloo."

This is the final part of our week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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Roberto Ferdman is a correspondent at VICE News. He and his colleagues at VICE News Tonight won the George Polk Award for Television Reporting for their coverage of the killing of Breonna Taylor and the investigations that followed.

This is part four in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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Helen Branswell is an infectious disease and global health reporter for STAT. She won this year's George Polk Award for Public Service for her coverage of the pandemic.

This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman are reporters at BuzzFeed News. Together they won this year's George Polk Award for Business Reporting for their coverage of Facebook's handling of disinformation on its platform. 

This is the second in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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Tristan Ahtone is the former Indigenous Affairs editor at High Country News and is currently the editor-in-chief at The Texas Observer. His High Country News article “Land-Grab Universities,” co-authored with Robert Lee, won the 2021 George Polk Award for Education Reporting.

This is the first in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.

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