The Edit

Varun Nayar speaks with journalist Alli Maloney about her two year long reporting project on the Columbus Division of Police. During the episode, Maloney talks about Columbus' troubled history with racism and police violence, biased hiring practices, and what she sees for the future of this community. 

Host: Varun Nayar

Producer: Ian Hurley

Theme Music Chris Cordaro

Varun Nayar spoke with Pacific Standard writer Jimmy Tobias about the future of public lands and conservation. Tobias recently reported on a key member of the Department of the Interior's work schedule, which showed a lack of meetings with conservation groups. They also talked about the politics of federal lands, and the potential future of a new Civilian Conservation Corps.  

On January, 28th 1969 Santa Barbara experienced the third-worst oil spill in American history. To commemorate the anniversary of this terrible event, this episode of 'The Edit' features an interview by KCRW's Jonathan Bastian with Pacific Standard reporters Kate Wheeling and Max Ufberg. During the conversation, Wheeling and Ufberg describe the reporting that went into their oral history of the spill, and how the fall-out from the spill shaped significant environmental legislation in the years to follow. Special thanks to KCRW for allowing us to re-air this interview, and for all their assistance in helping us to create this show. 

You can find Kate and Max's oral history in-full here: http://bit.ly/2CpFvoz 

Host: Varun Nayar

Interviewer: Jonathan Bastian

Theme Music: Chris Cordaro

Producer: Ian Hurley

On this episode of The Edit, we talk with Kate Wheeling about reporting on COP23, an annual U.N. sanctioned climate conference, from the climate change endangered island of Fiji. Wheeling discusses climate policy, first-hand stories of the effects of global warming, and the future of life for residents of the South Pacific. 

'The Theft of the Gods" feature story can be found in the November 2017 Black Markets Issue of Pacific Standard magazine or the PS Mag website. 

In the first episode of The Edit, host Varun Nayar sits down with Pacific Standard magazine reporter Francie Diep to discuss an innovative new program at the University of Kentucky called PATHways that helps opioid addicted mothers and mothers-to-be. In this conversation, Diep recounts how she discovered PATHways, her experience covering the opioid epidemic, and the relationship she cultivated with the main subject of the story, an opioid addicted mom named Christy.