Episode 435: Albert Samaha

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist and the deputy inequality editor at BuzzFeed News. His book Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes comes out in October.“I don’t think any child of the recession will ever not feel precarious. And being in journalism makes that even more so. ... At this point I’ve embraced the precarity of working in this industry. I’m sure at some point it’s going to be grating for people to hear me talk about how precarious and insecure I feel. … But I’ve got too many friends who are way too talented, who can’t use that talent in the ways that they are passionate about, for me to ever feel like my place in this industry is fully cemented.” Thanks to Mailchimp and CaseFleet for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: @AlbertSamaha albertsamaha.com Samaha on Longform Samaha's BuzzFeed archive 11:00 Never Ran, Never Will Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City (PublicAffairs • 2018) 17:00 "The Tragedy of Louis Scarcella" (Village Voice • Aug 2014) 23:00 "A Bronx Betrayal" (BuzzFeed • Jan 2015) 36:00 Concepcion 40:00 "Looking For Right And Wrong In The Philippines" (BuzzFeed • May 2017) 40:00 "My Uncle Spanky, the Rock Star Who Left It All Behind" (Pop-Up • Jun 2020) 42:00 "I Followed My Uncle’s Legend To Italy, And Found A New Way Forward" (BuzzFeed • Mar 2018) 42:00 "My Mom Believes In QAnon. I’ve Been Trying To Get Her Out." (BuzzFeed • Mar 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.4	Here's the show.
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0:53.1	I'm Max Linsky, and I'm here with my co-hosts, Aaron Lammer, Evan Ratliff, gentlemen.
0:57.6	Hello.
0:58.6	Hello.
0:59.6	Hey, Max.
1:00.6	What have you got for us this week in terms of a guest?
1:03.4	In terms of a guest I have for you, Albert Samaha, who is a writer and an editor at Buzz
1:09.8	Feed, and Albert's had a pretty interesting career.
1:12.6	He was in sort of the last throws of the Alt Weekly era where young reporters could
1:18.2	sort of cut their teeth and learn how to write big feature stories on someone else's
1:22.8	dime.
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