Reflecting On More Than 10 Years Of Curious City

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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As Curious City goes through some changes, we take some time to look back and reflect on more than a decade of answering listeners' questions and lessons learned over the years.

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0:00.0	It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region and investigate.
0:05.8	Report.
0:06.4	Explore.
0:07.2	From WB.E.Z.
0:09.3	Hi, it's reported Adriana Cardona McGigad.
0:12.1	As Curious City goes through some changes, we want to take the time to look back and reflect.
0:18.1	Back in 2022, we celebrated Curious City's 10-year anniversary.
0:23.0	And in the spirit of that huge milestone, I sat down with Curious City's founder, Jennifer
0:28.1	Brandel.
0:29.3	Jen is now the CEO of a company she created called Harkin, which grew out of the Curious City
0:35.1	model.
0:36.2	Jen starts us off by talking about how the time she spent working for the Baha'i National Center
0:42.3	inspired this idea of including listeners' curiosity in the editorial process.
0:48.5	One of the tenets of the Baha'i faith is that there's this humble posture of service.
0:53.8	So rather than a religious group going into a community
0:57.2	and saying, hey, we know what's best for you, they came in with this approach that said, you know what
1:03.7	you need best. So they assumed that the people they were trying to help knew what they needed
1:08.1	better than anyone else could. And I thought about what would it look
1:12.0	like if journalism started from the same humble posture and asked, what is it that you don't
1:17.1	understand and how can journalists be a resource to help you get that information so that you can
1:22.0	make informed decisions in your life? Can you talk a little bit about what was going on in the media
1:26.8	landscape back then that made you want was going on in the media landscape back then
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