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Episode 112: Don Van Natta Jr.

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Education, Books, Arts, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Don Van Natta Jr., a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, writes for ESPN and is the author of several books, including Wonder Girl. "The nature of the kind of work I do as an investigative reporter, every story you do is going to get attacked and the tires are going to get kicked. It’s going to get scrutinized down to every phrase and down to every letter. You have to have multiple sources for key facts on this type of story. We set out to get that and we got it." Thanks to TinyLetter and Bonobos for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @DVNJr Van Natta Jr. on Longform [3:00] "The Trials of White Boy Rick" (Evan Hughes • The Atavist • Sep 2014) [3:00] The Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award [4:00] "His Game, His Rules" (ESPN • Mar 2013) [4:00] "Rice Case: Purposeful Misdirection by Team, Scant Investigation by NFL" (with Kevin Van Valkenburg • ESPN • Sep 2014) [11:00] "Sources: Rice Told NFL He Hit Fiancee" (ESPN • Sep 2014) [14:00] "Ravens Respond to OTL Story" (ESPN • Sep 2014) [14:00] Steve Bisciotti responds to Van Natta's report (Baltimore Ravens) [15:00] "Here's Every Edit ESPN Has Made To Its OTL Ray Rice-Ravens Report" (Timothy Burke • Deadspin • Sep 2014) [17:00] "Van Natta Defends Ray Rice Report" (ESPN • Sep 2014) [24:00] League of Denial (Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru • Crown Archetype • 2013) [24:00] "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" (Frontline • 2013) [24:00] "N.F.L. Pressure Said to Lead ESPN to Quit Film Project" (James Andrew Miller and Ken Belson • The New York Times • Aug 2013) [25:00] "The Match Maker" (ESPN • Aug 2013) [28:00] "Jerry Football" (ESPN • Aug 2014) [43:00] "Questions Linger About Why N.F.L. Destroyed Patriots’ Tapes" (Greg Bishop • The New York Times • Dec 2007) [47:00] Wonder Girl (Little, Brown and Company • 2011) [58:00] "Comfort Inn Hero" (The Miami Herald • Aug 1992) [105:00] "The Whistleblower's Last Stand" (ESPN • Mar 2014) [107:00] "The Half-Time Hero" (Jeff Maysh • Howler • Oct 2014) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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