Discovering the Story and Central Events

Mosi Secret has written for ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ. His new podcast is Radical.

“I think this story made me call on parts of myself that are not journalistic because I don’t really think that’s the way we’re going to get out of this at this point in my life. I think that it takes a more radical reimagining of who we are as human beings, the ways in which we’re connected, and what we owe to each other. And that’s not a reporting thing—that’s a ‘who are you’ kind of thing.”

Show notes:

• mosisecret.com
• Secret on Longform
• Secret’s New York Times archive
• 10:00 “Stolen Youth: How Durham's Criminal Justice System Sent Erick Daniels to Prison Based on the Shape of His Eyebrows” (INDYWeek • May 2007)
• 18:00 “On the Brink in Brownsville” (New York Times Magazine • May 2014)
• 21:00 “‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’” (New York Times Magazine • September 2017)
• 23:00 Johnny Kauffman’s website
• 28:00 “Having a Drink With Mosi Secret, the New York Times’ First-Ever Sin and Vice Reporter” (Joe Coscarelli • New York Magazine • June 2014)
• 29:00 “Behind the Red Door” (New York Times • May 2014)
• 38:00 “The Real 'CSI': How America’s Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts the Living at Risk” (A.C. Thompson • ProPublica • Feb 2011)

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