Brian Reed brak alle records met zijn podcast S-Town. Maar tegelijkertijd zette die serie hem aan het denken over zijn eigen vak. Daarmee gaat hij verder in zijn nieuwe podcast Question Everything.
In deze podcast vraagt hij zich op allerlei manieren af wat journalistiek eigenlijk is, en hoe het beter kan. Dat klinkt best diepzinnig en dat is het ook: deze podcast is vooral interessant voor echte vakidioten die graag overal aan twijfelen. In de eerste aflevering gaat Reed dapper in gesprek met een collega die ethische bezwaren had tegen S-Town. Daarna duikt hij de kroeg in met een paar beroemde collega’s voor een rondetafelgesprek over hun vakgebied.
Reporter Brian Reed re-examines everything about journalism, the profession he thought he knew. In the middle of making his second hit podcast, Brian got sued. Accused. Told the biggest story of his career – the Peabody Award-winning series S-Town – wasn’t journalism.
Which meant he had to spend years proving that it was. Obsessing over the question, “What is journalism, anyway?”
Join Brian as he turns the tools he’s acquired over his years as a journalist on journalism itself.
With gripping stories, reporting, and interviews every other Thursday, Question Everything is a show for anyone who’s ever felt confused, frustrated, or misled by the news they rely on. At a time when distrust in the media is at an all time high, when so many believe that journalism is failing, Question Everything is a real-time quest to try and make journalism better.
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Produced by Placement Theory and KCRW.
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“Question Everything” is a production of KCRW and Placement Theory.
