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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Importance of Positionality in Investigative Journalism

I think more than the attitude, it's the turning of an encounter, which is two people with their own personalities, they're relating to each other. On some level, I always know that ultimately this is going to be mine. And not yours. Hence the kind of piece, like obviously, if you're doing like investigative journalism about people in duress or like, you know, people who are the victims of some of something. That's where it gets like where you don't feel good about the fact that that positionality might still be at play.

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