E108. Harleen Kaur Thinks The News Is A More Complex A Problem Than Outer Space

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Harleen Kaur is a former NASA space engineer and current CEO and founder of Ground News, the world’s first news comparison platform. Ground News aggregates news stories from around the world, shows you how they are being covered by different media outlets, and helps you identify the media bias on the different coverage. Harleen founded the company to solve a problem she herself had, when it came to identifying media bias and putting news stories within a larger global perspective. She and Bridget discuss how revenue models are ruining journalism, the advantages of traveling and living in several different countries, the perspective working on a probe to Pluto can give you on the achievements of humankind, and how challenging yourself with information that competes with your world view teaches intellectual resilience.

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0:35.0	This week on the podcast I'm excited to have Harlene Carr.
0:39.0	Harlene is the CEO of Ground News, the world's first news comparison platform.
0:44.0	Harlene has an MBA from Inciad and a Masters in Space Studies from the International Space
0:49.4	University. Prior to Ground News, she has had several notable roles, including being the first ever female
0:55.3	and youngest VP for Rolls Royce jet engines, serving as the C-O-O and CFO for a mobile app with over 5 million users, and working as a test engineer for NASA's New Horizons program.
1:08.0	She's a slouch. Just kidding. She's really brilliant and I'm honored to sit down and talk to her about media literacy and her platform
1:17.8	Ground News which is fascinating. Enjoy. I'm with Harleneine Carr everybody. Welcome to Watkins Welcome.
1:26.5	Thanks for having me Bridget. So excited. I'm so excited. You are doing
1:31.1	what I would be doing if I wasn't just making fun of all of the news.
1:37.1	I would, I feel like I've occupied the center that I've been calling politically homeless and many many people find them in this
1:46.7	space and part of the reason I think they're finding themselves in this space has been this
1:52.1	deterioration of where to find what is true.
1:55.6	And I've been saying there needs to be a news source that just helps people
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