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Podcast: Towers of Babel
Episode: Interview: Dr. Carrie Brown
Description: Dr. Carrie Brown is the director of the masterâs program in Social Journalism at The City University of New York. I called her up recently to discuss a Medium essay that quoted one of Carrieâs students, Mekdela Maskal: âJournalism doesnât have to be a story.â It doesnât? The transformation of (many) journalists into storytellers is one of my obsessions here at Towers of Babel, so I asked Carrie to help explain how and why social journalism strives to place less emphasis on Story. (Thanks to Carrie for her insights and good humor⌠and fo...