There are whole worlds that i can become more versed in. There are slats of the population that i could get more comfortable talking to. The sweet spot for our show, for its beenaminute and for this new show, was always just like, i love to talk to people who waren't from central casting. Do you think there is still lots of room for you to grow as an interviewer? Yes.
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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