The search for voices in the rubble

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

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Summary

Dozens are still unaccounted for after a sudden building collapse in the Miami area. And introducing The Washington Post’s new executive editor, Sally Buzbee.

In the early hours of Thursday, a 12-story condominium building in Miami-Dade County collapsed. Half of the 40-year-old beachfront structure crumbled and over 150 people are missing. The cause of the collapse is unknown, but investigations are underway. Marc Fisher shares what happened.

This month, The Washington Post’s new executive editor, Sally Buzbee, took the helm. Formerly the executive editor and senior vice president at the Associated Press, Sally Buzbee became the first woman to head the nearly 1,000-person newsroom. In an interview, Buzbee discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the future of journalism across the country and at The Post.

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0:46.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:57.0	This is post reports.
0:58.4	I'm Martine Powers.
1:02.2	It's Friday, June 25th.
1:06.6	Today the race to find survivors and answers in the Surfside Condo Collapse and a conversation
1:13.8	with our new executive editor.
1:19.5	When you see something like this, it really is a unique type of tragedy to have in the
1:23.8	middle of the night half of a building just collapse like that and it's tough.
1:30.4	It's been gut wrenching for an awful lot of people, but I'll tell you, nobody is quitting
1:35.7	here and we are going to stand by those families and we're going to stand by everyone that's
1:41.7	been displaced.
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