Episode 381: Hannah Dreier

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Hannah Dreier is a reporter at The Washington Post and the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. “You can’t come up with a good story idea in the office. I’ve never had a good idea that I just came up with out of thin air. It always comes from being on the ground.” Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @hannahdreier hannahdreier.com Dreier on Longform [01:49] "Former MS-13 Member Who Secretly Helped Police is Deported" (ProPublica • Jan 2019) [02:05] "Trust and Consequences" (Washington Post • Jan 2020) [02:33] Dreier's archive at New York [02:35] Dreier on This American Life [02:37] "How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students" (New York Times Magazine • Dec 2019) [07:52] "A Child's Scraped Knee a Life or Death Matter in Venezuela" (Associated Press • Oct 2016) [08:50] "Life on the Line in Venezuela as Economic Crisis Worsens" (Associated Press • July 2016) [15:55] "Venezuela's Newest Shortage: Breast Implants" (Hartford Courant • Sep 2014) [17:52] "No Food, No Teachers, Violence in Failing Venezuela Schools" (Hartford Courant • Jun 2016) [30:29] "How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students" (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2019) [30:34] "The Disappeared" (ProPublica • Sep 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:26.9	remote connection. You of course are Aaron Lamer. I am Aaron Lamer. Thank you. mentioning that. And on the show today I talked to
1:36.3	Hannah Dreyer who published that big Washington Post story about the way statements by minor migrants in detention given to therapists was being
1:48.7	used against them in deportation cases. You probably know her from her Pulitzer Prize winning work
1:56.4	about MS-13 on Long Island in ProPublica. She's done tons of other
2:01.6	interesting stuff also.
2:03.0	I am very, very glad that she is finally on the show.
2:06.0	Those stories are so impressive and every time I read one I spend the whole time thinking like how did she get that so hopefully you're going to like
2:14.8	fill that all in in this interview man more on that soon but before I would be
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