Ali Velshi: Broadcast Journalist, Former Host on Al Jazeera America
Broadcast journalist Ali Velshi discusses the 2008 financial crisis, the presidential election, Al Jazeera America, as well as journalism in general.
Broadcast journalist Ali Velshi discusses the 2008 financial crisis, the presidential election, Al Jazeera America, as well as journalism in general.
“The thing about Buzzfeed that’s really cool is that we have a bunch of different identities – you can see that both in the types of people who work in the newsroom and the content we produce. We really try to reach people where they are. And that means that we have to maintain a lot of different identities at once.”
I definitely wanted to write for a popular audience, I just didn’t know it would be from the nitty-gritty world of journalism rather than the “Ivory Tower high-horse” position, so to speak. We like to say data journalism is social science on deadline. So I think I’ve kind of melded these two worlds.
Polarization has changed the kinds of pressures on journalists to an extreme degree.
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