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Speaker 2: What does being a journalist mean to you? Interview famous people,

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Speaker 2: getting this stupe on the latest news? Are you ready

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Speaker 2: to make journalism You're superpowered?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Today work exploring a job that keeps the world up

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Speaker 2: to speed with information? Do you love sharing information? If

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Speaker 2: you've ever dreamed of being a journalist, you won't want

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Speaker 2: to miss this episode. Today we'll meet an experienced journalist.

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Speaker 2: She's covered lots of topics, but her passion is writing

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Speaker 2: about a special group of people. Parents up, we have

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Speaker 2: an appointment at a newsroom. It's only a few blocks away.

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Speaker 2: So as we stroll, let's see if there's anything newsworthy

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Speaker 2: like what, oh, there's always something the weather, an accident, gossip.

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Speaker 2: A journalist can cover all sorts of things. Remember when

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Speaker 2: we met kat at Chasata, the first Mexican born woman

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Speaker 2: to go into space. That's big news for science and

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Speaker 2: women in space. Or how about Andrew Zimmer and TV

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Speaker 2: celebrity ship. That doesn't mean a journalist can be invited

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Speaker 2: to a studio set and see how he cooks from

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Speaker 2: behind the stage. If you go, information is power. People

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Speaker 2: want to know what's going on The earliest known news

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Speaker 2: items was the acta diurna. Important daily events in ancient

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Speaker 2: Rome were carved onto stone or metal and set in

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Speaker 2: places for the public to see. But in those days

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Speaker 2: only royalty and other wealthy mooti doos could read. Today

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Speaker 2: almost everyone has access the Internet alone sports four point

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Speaker 2: five billion users sitting info by blogs, blogs, podcasts, websites, webcasts,

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Speaker 2: email and social media. Those real stories and more. And

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Speaker 2: we don't just share news, we share our views on everything.

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Speaker 2: Look over there by that coffee shop, there's a crowd.

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Speaker 2: Let's check it out. Ah, it's kittens from an animal shelter.

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Speaker 4: I want to hold one. It's so cute and cuddly.

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Speaker 2: Our first story As a journalist, what questions would you ask?

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Speaker 1: I find out how many animals are at the shelter.

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Speaker 4: I'd ask how to adopt a pit and take care

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Speaker 4: of it?

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Speaker 2: Great? Those facts create news journalism, information without opinions, clear

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Speaker 2: and to the point. Now, if you were a feature journalist,

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Speaker 2: you'd interview many people and include stories. You might research

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Speaker 2: animal shelters across the country and encourage people to adopt

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Speaker 2: rescued animals. My style super you could add photos or

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Speaker 2: videos and submit it to an editor of a media company,

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Speaker 2: or you could publish it yourself. Time to move on. Hey,

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Speaker 2: why did the journalists go to the ice cream shop?

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Speaker 4: I don't know why she was.

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Speaker 2: Looking for a scoop.

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Speaker 3: Look, the building is on fire.

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Speaker 2: Thankfully the firefighters have arrived. I wonder how the fire started.

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Speaker 4: I bet this will be on TV tonight. Does that

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Speaker 4: need a journalist too?

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Speaker 3: Yep?

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Speaker 2: And if there was something suspicious about the fire, and

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Speaker 2: investigative journalists who acts like a detective, would interview all

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Speaker 4: That sounds exciting.

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Speaker 2: It takes courage to uncover and tell the truth. Hey,

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Speaker 2: we're almost at our destination. The newsroom is just around

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Speaker 4: Uh oh, do you see what I see?

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Speaker 3: Those people look angry.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a protest. Wow, everyone's recording it with

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Speaker 4: So anybody can be a journalist.

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Speaker 2: Let's see, here's a test. How many people would you

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Speaker 4: Over a hundred?

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Speaker 1: Actually the protesters are a small group. Most of the

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Speaker 2: A story changes based on the viewer. A journalist can

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Speaker 4: I guess it's tricky. But if I can't interview all

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Speaker 3: Is that's true?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: When I meet the appointment, I was told to look

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Speaker 2: for Anna white House.

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Speaker 1: There's only one woman. She's at that guest over there.

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Speaker 2: Right, let's go introduce ourselves. Hi there, Anna, I'm with

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Speaker 2: Wingo kids and we want to find out what it

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Speaker 5: Questions you can? Indeed?

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Speaker 3: Great?

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Speaker 2: First, what kind of journalist are you?

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Speaker 5: I am a mixture. Really, I'm a freelance journalist, so

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Speaker 5: I will take on investigative journalists pieces, I will take

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Speaker 5: on reporting lifestyle travel. I've worked on national newspapers and

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Speaker 2: Great, what would you say? Are three things all journalists need?

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Speaker 5: You need? Number one a relentlessness. Now, let me describe

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Speaker 5: that you cannot stop until you have the answer to

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Speaker 5: your questions. Okay, So if you are going to give

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Speaker 5: up at the first hurdle step away from this career,

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Speaker 5: you need drive. You need hunger to get to the

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Speaker 5: bottom of a story, a drive to find the truth

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Speaker 5: in that story. And I think thirdly you need a

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Speaker 5: love of communication of bringing together people through words.

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Speaker 2: In It would be great if you could provide tips

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Speaker 2: at the end so our listeners can learn these skills.

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Speaker 2: We also received some fantastic questions from our Lingo Kids listeners.

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Speaker 1: How odd were you when you decided.

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Speaker 3: You wanted to be a tern?

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Speaker 5: I was I think nine years old when I decided

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Speaker 5: I wanted to be a journalist. I was always asking questions,

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Speaker 5: So when I was little, my mum always used to

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Speaker 5: going what's that? Who's that? Why did that happen? What's

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Speaker 5: a hunger to find answers to my questions.

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Speaker 1: And did you just write down the answers people gave you.

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Speaker 5: I used to record on a little in England. They're

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Speaker 5: called Fisher Price Toys. Their little toy cassettes, and I

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Speaker 5: would record myself, aged nine, interviewing my sister about her day,

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Speaker 5: And I found myself collecting these tapes and I realized

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Speaker 5: my sister more by asking those questions, which made me

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Speaker 5: because I knew what I could use against her, But

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Speaker 4: What a cool idea. I could do that too with

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Speaker 4: you still have as interviews?

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Speaker 5: I've got them all. My mom still has them. She

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Speaker 5: I do remember. And that's where it began. So you're

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Speaker 4: Did you go to school to become a journalist?

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Speaker 5: I started out at university studying law, but then I

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Speaker 5: when I switched over and I went to the London

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Speaker 5: School of Journalism, and I think that's the important thing

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Speaker 5: to remember that anything's possible. Some of the best journalists

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Speaker 3: Oh that's get now. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: My teacher often complains about my writing, So I thought

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Speaker 5: Will don't know anybody tell you you can't do it,

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Speaker 5: because I had that when I was younger. I'm dyslexic,

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Speaker 5: and I have three Sunday Times bestseller books, I've been

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Speaker 4: Do people ever get mad about what you say?

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Speaker 5: Yes, you have to be robust. And when I say robust,

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Speaker 5: not the people you're going to enrage by uncovering the truth.

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Speaker 4: Anna, what do you like this about being a journalist.

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Speaker 5: The best part for me is when your story hits

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Speaker 5: see your byline, and that's something it's very important to

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Speaker 5: That is the moment when, as that nine year old

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Speaker 5: a journalist. How did you get into that job. Who, what, why, when?

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Speaker 5: Those are the five pillars of journalism.

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Speaker 5: And I would do what I did is start your

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Speaker 5: interview your teddy bears, interview your sisters, your siblings, your friends.

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Speaker 5: Ask them questions until you found out something about them

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Speaker 4: How do I know who is this?

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Speaker 5: Soce, let's take a case study of your school classroom

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Speaker 5: and you want to find out who stole the teacher's apple. Okay,

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Speaker 5: seeing that those stories don't add up. And then you

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Speaker 5: and you ultimately have found who is stolen, and you

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Speaker 2: even if you never planned to be a journalist, learning

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Speaker 2: how to tell facts versus opinions is a lifelong skill.

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