About this episode

Merve Emre begins the new season of The Critic and Her Publics with journalist Chana Joffe-Walt to discuss the art of the interview and its role in preserving dignity during crises.

The new season of The Critic and Her Publics—The Art of the Interview— begins! "Chana Joffe-Walt is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and a producer at This American Life . Her series on school segregation, Nice White Parents , examined how progressive Brooklyn families undermined racial integration. She regularly takes over from Ira Glass to host special episodes on race, labor, and education. But it was her series of conversations with men, women, and children in Gaza that made me want to begin the season with her, to explore how the interview can preserve the dignity and complexity of ordinary people in a time of genocide." — Merve Emre See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Merve Emre

Guest: Chana Joffe-Walt

Topics covered

• journalism
• interview techniques
• race
• education
• school segregation
• Gaza

Keywords

• Chana Joffe-Walt
• interview
• journalism
• race
• education
• Gaza
• Nice White Parents

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: This American Life

Books & works: Nice White Parents

Places: Gaza

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