How Did You Get Your First Job at NPR?

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"i was totally intoxicated by the work there and the mission of journalismand never looked back," says John Sutter. "My first interen ship at npr actually wasn't even i news, but thet i managed to somehow squirm into the the news room." He worked as an intern on the politics desk before becoming a full time production assistant. And then got this apprenticeship in investigative reporting that made him realize what he really wanted to do with his life.

Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer for The Atlantic covering immigration. Her latest article, on the secret history of U.S. government’s family-separation policy, is ”An American Catastrophe.”

“Interviewing separated families, I’ve found, is just on a whole other scale of pain and trauma. I’ve watched people have really intense PTSD flashbacks in front of me. I never wanted to risk asking a family to open up in that way if I didn’t know that I’d be able to use that material. The worst thing you can do is waste someone’s time in a way that causes them pain.”

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