Blumberg: Audio storytellers must prioritize curiosity and understanding over issue advocacy
Alex Blumberg · Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media · Y Combinator · Jan 17, 2018 · at 9:19
Alex Blumberg, co-founder of Gimlet Media, discusses the core editorial values and motivations required for podcast creators.
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“And empathy is like a big, big part of what we believe is important. Like you have to be motivated by a desire to understand you know, as much as a desire as any other desire, like sometimes like a lot of people get into sort of like this line of work for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's like, they really want to like, they feel passionately about an issue and they want to sort of bring attention to that issue. All that is, is true, but I, but we want, like, we want it to be, you know, so proceed from curiosity and understanding.”
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