Ep. 121 - Emma Green, Senior Associate Editor at The Atlantic

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Emma Green is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, where she covers politics, policy, and religion. We spoke with her about how Democrats appeared to be the Party of God during their recent convention, what stood out while reporting and editing The Atlantic's recent series on young people choosing their religions, and what she would report on with unlimited time and an unlimited budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.7	Emma Green is the senior associate editor at the Atlantic where she covers politics, policy, and religion.
0:56.0	She's a graduate of Georgetown University and Emma, thanks for joining us and there's so much I want to talk to you about,
1:02.0	but let me back up for a second
1:04.0	because if I have your bio rights you majored in government not journalism so what
1:09.1	was your journey to work for the Atlantic? Well, what a journey it was.
1:15.0	I'm so happy to be talking with you all.
1:18.0	Thanks so much for having me on your podcast.
1:21.0	I went from Georgetown where I knew that I liked things that had to do with
1:27.8	religion and writing and thinking but had no idea what I want to do with my life and sort of stumbled backwards into the Atlantic,
1:35.4	which has a program for new college grads. And sort of long story short after several different years of doing jobs at the Atlantic, working on the
1:45.8	national desk, working for education, working as the Homepage editor, I
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