The speaker shares their experience as a journalist in New York and Houston, highlighting the difficulties of establishing a career in the industry. They discuss turning to freelancing for more opportunities and express their determination to overcome obstacles in the limited media climate in Houston.
Roxanna Asgarian is the author of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.
“Every once in a while, I'll have someone just freak out at me. And it keeps you honest, in a way, because they don't owe you anything. People don't owe you anything as a journalist. ... But everyone reacts to trauma differently and some people really do want to talk about it. And I think the families in this book really wanted to talk about it and it felt like no one was even paying attention to them.”
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