On the Scene: Stories about showing up when disaster strikes
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories about being the one who is there when it happens.
Part 1: Journalist Sarah Kaplan normally covers the science beat, but when tragedy strikes in Las Vegas, she takes on an assignment unlike any she's had before.
Part 2: While covering the devastating impact of an earthquake in Thailand, journalist Maryn McKenna reflects on tragedy in her own life.
Sarah Kaplan is a reporter at the Washington Post covering news from around the nation and across the universe.
Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist who writes about public health, global health and food policy. She is a columnist for WIRED’s Ideas section and a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University. She is the author of the 2017 bestseller BIG CHICKEN (tiled PLUCKED outside North America), SUPERBUG, and BEATING BACK THE DEVIL; her TED talk, “What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?”, is closing in on 1.8 million views. She lives in Atlanta.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I felt. |
| 0:08.0 | I was so unhappy. |
| 0:09.0 | I figured it out. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. Hey everybody, welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.7 | I am your host, Erin Barker. And I'm Liz Neely. And this week we're presenting stories from science |
| 0:36.7 | journalists who have found themselves on the scene of traumatic events. |
| 0:40.5 | And these stories are really about what it means to bear witness to tragedy, which is something that we think about a lot at Story Collider. |
| 0:47.1 | So when I joined Story Collider initially, I did not realize what I was getting into. |
| 0:51.6 | I just thought, oh, stories about science, right? |
| 0:53.7 | But really |
| 0:54.6 | quickly, I realized that as story producers, we were asking people not just to talk about what was |
| 1:02.2 | sometimes a profoundly difficult life experience, but specifically like to tell us that story, |
| 1:08.0 | to relive those memories and walk through them together. And Aaron, you do this so |
| 1:13.3 | well. And I was really impressed by what good listeners our team is. And I think it's why people feel |
| 1:20.2 | safe and telling us hard things. And I remember, you know, there would be times when a storyteller would |
| 1:26.4 | then ask like, oh, is it okay if I tell |
| 1:29.0 | this part of my story? Because I don't want to upset the listeners. And that kind of broke my |
| 1:35.4 | heart. And it also made me realize that if we wanted to take care of our storytellers, |
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