Hey friends welcome so glad you're here and today I'm sharing a conversation with journalist

Emma Jade and I absolutely love this conversation because Emma is both a traditional corporate journalist and also an independent

journalist and so she has a very unique perspective on the role of journalism

what goes into making a good journalist, and why journalists are more important

than they've ever been.

So let's dive in.

I'm Sharon McMahon, and welcome to the Sharon Sayso podcast.

I'm so excited to chat with my friend Emma today.

Thank you so much for coming.

I just died for the fact that you said that I'm friend because I feel like I look I mean I I join you when I watch your stuff every single day of my life especially recently.

Oh nice that like the feeling is reciprocated.

It's not just a little of a exciting relationship.

Oh, I think you're lovely. I really do.

And we've tried it before.

You've interviewed me before on your platform and you've some amazing

even amazing community but extremely nice people and I walked away from

that feeling like this woman needs her own talk show for For people who are not familiar with you,

tell people about your career, tell people what you have done

and also what you do on Instagram now.

When I first went to college,

we're going that far back. I remember looking at this whole list of careers and I saw broadcast journalism I was like, oh, I think that's kind of like the path that Oprah may have gone or

Yeah, yeah, my mind. I'm so obsessed with her and I just remember clicking it on the computer going to my first communications class and it was that exact feeling of like your last piece of the puzzle that just like clicks you know

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