![]() ![]() The American people don’t have a lot of trust in journalists that’s something we need to take really seriously. The real challenge journalists face is trust. She always reminded me you had to have courage and that the truth is our holy grail. She’d say to me “Journalism is a lesson every day” – it was why she loved the business. She was an extraordinary sponsor and advocate of me and of journalism. She covered 10 presidents, starting with President Kennedy and on to Obama, until she retired in 2010 she died in 2013. I was so lucky to have Helen Thomas, the legendary White House correspondent, as my mentor. That felt really important because I was telling a story that was not just his story, but a lot of people’s. I interviewed him in the military prison where he was sent to after turning himself in. When I was working for MTV News, I did a story on a veteran who was given deployment for his third tour in Iraq but, because he didn’t agree with the war, he went AWOL. Pride in my career has come from knowing I’ ve made a difference. I felt like people weren’t being informed about the true cost of the war or the reasons for it. But the BBC had a shaky camera and the journalist was on the ground, and it felt very dangerous and visceral. I was studying journalism at college at the time and I remember the CNN version made the invasion feel very far away, very safe, at least for the correspondent. The US invasion of Iraq interrogated the role of journalism and its failings. A gift from her of a subscription to Highlights, a news magazine for kids, got me really interested in the media. I wrote for my school newspaper and would read an article or two in my local paper just to have something to talk to my grandmother about. I was the kind of kid who loved watching nightly news programmes. And that’s political, in its most profound way.”Įrica Anderson will speak about podcasting and audio content at the FIPP World Media Congress 2020, taking place online from 2-30 September. Her favourite quote is from the American poet June Jordan: “To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. In 2015 Erica moved to Google, where she helped bring together the tech giant and the global journalism community before helping to organise the Google walkout in November 2018. Her first job was as a reporter for the Northwest Indiana Times and career highlights include being chosen by MTV to cover the 2008 US election, acting as Katie Couric’s digital strategist during her tenure at CBS Evening News and joining a then nascent Twitter’s media team to help journalists make strategic use of the platform to spread news, engage with communities and correct misinformation. 01 September 2020 My Media Life: Erica Anderson, Vox MediaĮrica Anderson is executive producer for podcasts at Vox and an advisor to Lesbians Who Tech. ![]()
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