I was always kind of a generalist, an underground i double matred in political sin and music composition. I got a master's dagree on public policy with a focus on, like, very generalist ideas and themes. Did it feel like a job than it felt like a life? Yes, but i have a life now. That is not my job. It fei, it felt like that was all that there was en getting that right was all that mattered.
Sam Sanders is the former host of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute. He hosts Vulture’s Into It, which launched last week.
“I don’t think I ever wanted a career where I was doing the same thing for 30 years. I think that, editorially, I had become someone who was really contemplating what kind of capital-j journalist I wanted to be, want to be, and I was questioning a lot of rules and the structure of what we think journalism is supposed to be, and I think I needed to be away from a legacy institution like NPR, at least for a spell, to work that out.”
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