Polk Award Winners: Sarah Stillman

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the director of the Global Migration Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She won the George Polk Award for "The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters." “I’m all about the Venn diagram where the individual meaningful stories of things people are up against intersect with the big systemic injustice issues of our day. It feels like climate is clearly an enormous domain where it’s been hard in some ways to tell substantive stories of where actual human beings are navigating and pushing back on some of these huge cultural forces.” This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.4	Hey there, it's Max.
0:49.4	We're back with the next interview in our series this week with this year's George Polk
0:54.4	Award Winners and the Polk Awards, I should say.
0:57.6	They honor the best and most important journalism of the year, and there were very few pieces
1:02.6	that I read in 2021 that stuck with me quite in the same way that the one we're talking
1:08.4	about today did.
1:09.4	It's by Sarah Stilman of the New Yorker, and I first interviewed Sarah for long form
1:14.2	way back in 2013.
1:16.2	It's a little bit terrifying that we've been doing the show for that long.
1:18.9	But Sarah, since then, has continued to do this absolutely groundbreaking, and I would
1:25.7	argue unique brand of journalism that she does.
1:29.7	She finds these human stories that are embedded in massive societal issues, issues that are
1:35.6	so big, they're hard to wrap your head around, and she has this way of making those huge
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