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Erin Lee Carr talks about her new book, lessons from her father David Carr, and why she was 'lucky' he mentored her

Reliable Sources

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Four years after acclaimed media columnist David Carr died, one of his daughters is out with a powerful memoir. In "All That You Leave Behind," Erin Lee Carr shares the ups and downs of their lives through emails, Gchats, photos and stories. She talks with Brian Stelter, who was mentored by Carr, about her own career trajectory and what she learned from her father.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Think about this. When you die, what will you leave behind? What will you leave behind?

0:09.2

What will you leave behind? What kind of digital footprint? The emails, the texts, the photos, the stories, what else?

0:20.0

Welcome to this week's Reliable Sources Podcast. I'm your host Brian Stelter and this

0:29.3

episode's pretty personal for me. Some of you probably know that David Carr was one of my mentors.

0:36.0

He was really a father figure. He was the media columnist at the New York Times in the

0:42.2

late 2000s in the early 2010s when I was a

0:46.2

reporter there trying to learn my way in the media world. David died in February 2015. He collapsed in the newsroom of the New York Times.

0:58.8

His death was a shock to all of us.

1:05.0

And now his daughter Erin Lee Carr is out with a magnificent new book

1:11.0

that in a way brings him back to life.

1:15.0

The book is titled All that you leave behind.

1:18.0

And it includes some of the emails,

1:21.0

some of the G-Chats, some of the other records she has of her father and of her life,

1:28.9

of her emergence as a documentary filmmaker. She writes about before he died, she writes about after.

1:37.0

And it's a really remarkable look at this legend in the media world and all that he left behind

1:48.2

Aaron as I mentioned is a documentary filmmaker. She actually has two films coming up this year. She has a film about

1:55.3

the victims of Larry Nassar at the Heart of Gold that's premiering on May 3rd on

2:02.2

HBO and a film about Michelle Carter. It's titled,

2:06.4

I Love You Now Die airing on HBO this summer. So in this podcast we're going to talk about her career, her experiences, and about what it was

2:18.7

like to go through these emails, go through these chats, go through these diaries, and both remember her father,

2:26.4

and I think also learn more about him through these records.

2:31.2

And Aaron joins me now. How is the book tour going? So we are on day three and I wake up

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