The Tyranny of Good Talkers (2017)

Often, the first question a show or editor will ask you when you pitch them an amazing story is whether your subject is "a good talker." But what if they're not? What if English is their second or third language? Or they come from a culture that tells stories that under-emphasize the self? Do they have any place in an American podcast aesthetic that is so relentlessly focused on "I"?

Gregory Warner wrestled with this problem in creating NPR's first international podcast, Rough Translation.

In this session from the 2017 Third Coast Conference, Gregory pulls from his own tape to show how you can work with challenging interviews of so-called “bad talkers” to create exceptional stories.

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