No this is not a repeat of our previous interview with Ian Urbina (@ian_urbina) from three years ago. Ian comes back on the pod to discuss the second season of The Outlaw Ocean Podcast, the audio arm of his independent non-profit news organization The Outlaw Ocean Project. We also talk about work-life balance and his old job working at the Blue Man Group.
Countries featured: China, North Korea, Libya, India, Haiti, Greece
Publication featured: The Outlaw Ocean Project, The New Yorker, The New York Times
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
The Outlaw Ocean Podcast - https://www.theoutlawocean.com/the-outlaw-ocean-podcast/
The Firefighter with OCD - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/nyregion/firefighter-mental-health-ocd.html
Jake's bio at Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jake-spring/
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20 Oct 2024
Emily Glazer - Wall Street Journal - Power & Influence
Elon Musk incited the troll hordes upon Emily Glazer. Not only did she live to tell the tale, she went on to write bombshell stories on Musk's drug use. Talk about not pulling your punches. Glazer, who reports on power and influence at the Wall Street Journal, talks about her roller coaster career and how she manages to produce so many big stories.
Countries featured: United States, Mexico
Publications featured: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, Austin American Statesmen
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Emily's Daily Northwestern story on female professors' tenure - https://bit.ly/4hriAgD
The Facebook Files - https://bit.ly/4hfAF0I
Her first story on Elon Musk's drug use - https://bit.ly/3UhA9Wj
Her story on Barclays CEO's Jeffrey Epstein links - https://bit.ly/4fdyHvZ
Popular Information newsletter - https://bit.ly/3YdHUh5
Empire of Pain - https://bit.ly/3BSzIve
Her story on drug money in Arizona - https://bit.ly/3YtsqqF
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24 Jul 2024
Daniel Alvarenga - El Salvador - Humo podcast
Humo: Murder and Silence in El Salvador connects a gruesome story of mass murder in El Salvador to a larger shift in the country's society with the election of Nayib Bukele. Daniel Alvarenga (@pipianspice (https://x.com/pipianspice)), host of the English-language version of the podcast, brings years of experience reporting on El Salvador as well as his experience as a Salvedorean-American to the show. He discusses his backdoor route into journalism, years spent making viral news videos and his struggles to make a career of telling Central American stories.
Countries featured: USA, El Salvador, Honduras
Publications featured: Al Jazeera (AJ+), Telemundo, KCSB, Rolling Stone
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Humo podcast - https://bit.ly/3y8tEgM (https://bit.ly/3y8tEgM)
Newsbroke on AJ+ - https://bit.ly/4c97nxn (https://bit.ly/4c97nxn)
His mini doc Why Are Indigenous People Dying at the Border - https://bit.ly/3LyDKKM (https://bit.ly/3LyDKKM)
His mini doc Why So Many Palestinians Live in El Salvador - https://bit.ly/3YeFKQ8 (https://bit.ly/3YeFKQ8)
Bryan Avelar on X - https://x.com/bavelarr (https://x.com/bavelarr)
Revista Factum - https://www.revistafactum.com/ (https://www.revistafactum.com/)
Atmos Magazine - https://atmos.earth/ (https://atmos.earth/)
Atmos article on El Salvador - https://bit.ly/3zPUfQ1 (https://bit.ly/3zPUfQ1)
Atmos story on Congo cobalt - https://bit.ly/3xX3EVB (https://bit.ly/3xX3EVB)
60 Songs that Explain the 90s podcast - https://bit.ly/46iTUl1 (https://bit.ly/46iTUl1)
Locatora Radio episode on protest dad - https://bit.ly/4d7fM56 (https://bit.ly/4d7fM56)
Menudo: Forever Young docuseries - https://bit.ly/4d831Hw (https://bit.ly/4d831Hw)
The book News for All the People - https://bit.ly/3SilzwV (https://bit.ly/3SilzwV)
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Bruce Douglas - Brasilia - Bloomberg
Published 20 Oct 2019 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because he knows that he's allowed to watch TV on a Saturday. He's not allowed to watch it on any other day. So... That's normally how I start the day. Make a boiled egg for me and the elder boy. It's normally a kind of gentle start in the morning. There are times when I go to the gym, bright and early, before things get crazy. So sometimes I go as early as 6 o'clock, though that's pretty rare. But normally if I don't go early, then I don't go at all. Yeah, that's how I stop my day. I don't have to be in the office until 11 o'clock these days. Oh, that's not bad. Which is quite civilized. But do you normally start looking at the news right away? […]
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