Jen Maxfield, MORE AFTER THE BREAK: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews Emmy Award-winning reporter Jen Maxfield about her extraordinary new book More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories. Jen describes the unrelenting curiosity and profound empathy that drove her to revisit the most memorable interviewees of her career, from Staten Island ferry crash survivor Paul Esposito to domestic violence survivor Tamika Tompkins. She offers us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the demands and challenges of her job and reveals how she has kept her emotions in check for the last 20 years (especially when she goes home to her children!).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
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| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Jen Maxfield is the author of More After the Break, a reporter returns to 10 unforgettable |
| 1:03.7 | news stories. Jen is an Emmy award-winning reporter and anchor for NBC New York. Prior to joining |
| 1:09.5 | the station in 2013, she worked for eyewitness news for 10 years, also as a reporter and anchor for NBC, New York. Prior to joining the station in 2013, she worked for |
| 1:11.9 | eyewitness news for 10 years, also as a reporter and substitute anchor. Starting her broadcast |
| 1:16.6 | career in Bingham, New York, Maxville worked in Syracuse before moving to New York City in 2002. |
| 1:22.8 | Her first book, More After the Break, is published by Greenleaf Book Group, where Maxfield revisits the most |
| 1:29.4 | memorable story she's covered during her two decades long career, which we talk about on the show. |
| 1:34.6 | She is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and teaches |
| 1:39.3 | courses in broadcast journalism, including Video One and on-air skills. A graduate of the class of 2000, |
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