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The Trey Gowdy Podcast

Kim Strassel: “Good Journalism Could Really Make A Difference”

The Trey Gowdy Podcast

FOX News Podcasts

Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary, News

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Former Congressman Trey Gowdy speaks with Kim Strassel, member of the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal. Kim tells Trey about how she first discovered her passion for journalism, she breaks down the difference between news and editorials and how a newspaper decides what news is worth covering. She explains how young people can ensure the news they are reading is reliable, how newspapers choose conservative and liberal voices for their editorial boards and they breakdown why the New York Times opinion board editor resigning, due to an unpopular op-ed, may damage people’s faith in journalism. Later, Trey and Kim discuss her experience covering the Russia investigation in 2016 and the importance of journalists applying the same standard to everyone. Follow Trey on Twitter: @TGowdySC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Fox. Thank you for joining us for another Tuesdays with Trey. We are delighted to have

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Kim Strazzle with the Wall Street Journal. Kim has been both a reporter and an

0:42.3

opinion writer.

0:43.4

She has written about issues other journalists

0:46.9

have sometimes avoided, and she has just generally

0:50.0

struck me as someone who has the courage to both know and then express her convictions.

0:55.6

She writes a column titled Potomac Watch and contributes to the Wall Street General's lead

1:00.9

editorials. I like her because not only is she a very good writer, she has courage.

1:06.2

Welcome Kim, how are you? It is great to be here Trey. Thank you for those very kind

1:11.0

words. How are you? I am doing fantastic. I want to start by

1:17.4

asking what drew you to journalism? Well, so partly it was accidental. I had known in college that I enjoyed writing. When I got done with college, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and was fortunate to have some mentors, some people that I worked for,

1:37.0

watching their children as a way to earn money in college and ends up they were two very powerful people at the Wall Street Journal and they said

1:45.4

oh that idea of going to law school don't don't do that and especially if you're not

1:49.6

certain that's what you want to do and they they set me up as a very lowly intern at the Wall Street Journal in Europe.

1:56.8

And I just found out within, you know, weeks that I loved it. I loved talking to people. I loved

2:02.0

finding things out. I think if you're a curious

2:04.2

person journalism is a great thing for you to just be able to explore and then try to

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