Pulitzer Prize Winner! NYT Journalist! Nicholas D. Kristof, CHASING HOPE: A Reporter's Life
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and bestselling author Nicholas D. Kristof joins Zibby to discuss his intimate and gripping new memoir, CHASING HOPE: A Reporter’s Life. Nick reveals how a brief stint in politics (running for governor of Oregon… and losing) unexpectedly gave him the gift of time, prompting this memoir. He shares anecdotes from his career in journalism, from editing the high school newspaper to reporting from conflict zones like Darfur. He discusses the challenges and rewards of the job, emphasizing the importance of fact-checking, humility, and compassion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zivie Readers. Nicholas D. Christoff is the author of Chasing Hope, a reporter's life. |
| 0:35.4 | Nicholas is a New York Times op-ed columnist and two-time Pulitzer |
| 0:38.2 | Prize winner. With his wife, Cheryl Wudun, he has written four best-selling books, including |
| 0:42.7 | the number one New York Times bestseller, Half the Sky. Christoph and Wudan were the first married |
| 0:47.6 | couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square Democracy |
| 0:52.0 | Movement in China and the massacre that followed. Christoph later won a second for his columns from Darfur. Christoph and Wudan live in the New York area with their three children. Welcome, Nick. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss chasing Hope, a reporter's life. It's great to be with you. I asked if I could call you Nick because you also have something |
| 1:11.1 | in your book where you find out about why you're supposed to write, you know, Nicholas D. Christoph on the |
| 1:18.0 | cover and not just Nick Christoph and how important all those optics are when you're a reporter. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah, and also the, when I was studying Arabic in Egypt, I discovered that, yeah, Nick was not, if this were an Arabic language podcast, I would definitely be Nicholas. |
| 1:34.5 | Yes. |
| 1:34.9 | Nick is not the greatest word in Arabic. |
| 1:36.7 | We'll stick to English for this. |
| 1:39.8 | We'll see what happens, though. |
| 1:40.9 | You never know. |
| 1:42.4 | Okay. |
| 1:43.0 | When did you decide to write a memoir about your life? |
| 1:45.7 | How long has this been in the works? It's so comprehensive. It's so good. What was the backstory of it? |
| 1:51.7 | So the backstory is simply, I had a 10-minute political career. I left the times to run for governor of Oregon. |
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