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Ali Velshi: Broadcast Journalist, Former Host on Al Jazeera America

Pranav BhandarkarMay 15, 2016May 15, 2016

Broadcast journalist Ali Velshi discusses the 2008 financial crisis, the presidential election, Al Jazeera America, as well as journalism in general.

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An Interview with Shani Hilton, Executive Editor at BuzzFeed News

Lily EngbithSeptember 24, 2015January 23, 2016

“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.”

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An Interview with Andrew Flowers, Quantitative Editor at FiveThirtyEight

Matthew GuidoSeptember 5, 2015

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.

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An Interview with Thomas Edsall, Op-Ed Contributor for the New York Times

Okoduwa AboiralorAugust 13, 2015August 13, 2015

Polarization has changed the kinds of pressures on journalists to an extreme degree.

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Nicholas Kristof Talks New Book and the Journalism Biz

Mikaela RabbFebruary 26, 2015February 26, 2015

Nicholas Kristof visited Yale to dish on his new book and his experiences as a journalist.

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An Interview with David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize Winner

Hedy GutfreundNovember 15, 2014November 21, 2014

David Cay Johnston is a journalist who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2001 for his investigative reporting. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications. Johnston…

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