Podcast 64: Greg Palast on Spitzer and the Bank Bailout; also, Field Report on Narrative Journalism
March 24th, 2008
Greg Palast, investigative reporter for the BBC, tells us why he thinks the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke when it did — and what federal prosecutors were trying to keep hidden from the public about the bank bailout by taking Spitzer down.
Here’s a link to a Nation article that tells the story.
Then we go to the Nieman Foundation’s Conference on Narrative Journalism. We talk with broadcast and print journalist John Hockenberry about interactive media, BU journalism department chair Louis Ureneck about memoir, and Nieman narrative program director Connie Hale about what “narrative journalism” is all about.
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March 24th, 2008 at 10:43 am
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