When i was figuring out my exit from inp r, i had a lot of conversations all across the industry. The last thing i wanted to do wes have a lot of money and then make a podcast no one listened to. I work fo good people, smart people who make good shit. I want you to hear it. And i wanted to be good for you.
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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