How Journalism Gets it Wrong (and Right!) with Belinda Luscombe

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Education, History

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Sharon sits down with Belinda Luscbome, TIME Magazine Editor and author of “Marriageology,” to examine the inner workings of modern journalism in America. As a veteran journalist with over 30 years under her belt at TIME Magazine, Belinda provides a wise perspective on the fate of journalism in the digital world, the importance of fact checking, how to identify credible news sources and the impact money really plays in the editorial process. Coming off the heels of one of the most controversial elections in American history, Sharon and Belinda also participate in a discussion about the value of journalism in a capitalist society.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this incredible conversation with the editor at large of Time magazine.
0:08.8	Belinda Lescombe has worked in American media for decades and before that she was from Australia. So she has a
0:16.1	very unique perspective on the American media and having worked her way up to being at such a high level at time where she can really see
0:25.8	the entire landscape of American news organizations. She has so much insight that the rest of us cannot even pretend to have.
0:35.0	So without further ado, let us dive into this conversation with Belinda Lesko.
0:40.0	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:42.0	And welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:46.0	I am very excited to get your expert perspective on this topic.
0:51.0	Well, I am happy to talk about the media as I have experienced it. I know it's a hot topic for some people.
0:57.0	It is. So I would love to hear more about your journey. How did you get to work at Time magazine magazine? You may be able to tell from my very southern accent that I am an immigrant and I arrived in America on the tales of my husband who won a fellowship to study and I just sort of took
1:17.7	progressively less terrible jobs until I arrived eventually as a journalist at Time magazine.
1:25.0	It took about four or five years from arriving in New York City
1:29.0	to being a journalist at Time.
1:31.7	I had previously worked at a newspaper in Sydney, Australia. I
1:36.3	decided I wanted to be a journalist when I traveled to South Africa and began to look at what was propping up the apartheid system there.
1:46.6	And I realized that the lovely, often very God-fearing white South Africans I was meeting had no idea how bad the situation was in the black townships and the brutality that was being visited upon their neighbors for their quote unquote safety and I realized if people had better information then they might be able to act more justly.
2:12.3	How old were you approximately like were you a teenager? Were you already a married
2:16.3	adult? Like where were you in your life cycle? I was just fresh out of university. I guess I was my second year out of university and so super suggestible and had the crazy idea I guess that one person could actually enter into the media and make this huge difference.
2:33.2	Did you have a light bulb moment where you were like,
2:35.8	this is what I need to do?
2:37.4	I did.
2:38.4	When I was in South Africa, I was with a, believe it or not,
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