This is On Being's Unheard Cuts. I'm Krista Tippett. You're listening to my unedited conversation

with Nicholas Kristoff. He's an op-ed columnist with The New York Times. I spoke with him on September

3rd, 2010, from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was in a private recording studio in

New York City. This interview was included in our show Journalism and Compassion,

Download the MP3 of the Produced Show at On Being.org.

Hurricane, it isn't, and it also wasn't raining on us, so it was a pretty good day to walk over.

Sweet, you sound good to me.

Preston, hello? Should I say hello?

You're welcome to say hello. Hi, can you hear me? I sure can.

Hi, it's Krista Tippett.

Hey, Krista, really nice to make your acquaintance this way.

Yeah, you too.

Nice to meet you in person too, but on the road sometime.

Yeah, thank you. I'm so glad you've agreed to take in the time to do this, and I wondered if you

know that we're changing the name of the program? I didn't know that.

Okay, so you're actually going to be one of the first programs we do with The New Name,

which is, we're changing the name from speaking of faith to being. So instead of speaking of

faith with Krista Tippett, it's going to be Krista Tippett on Being, which is, for a lot of

reasons, I think the faith title, this, you know, this is in public radio land, this is a young project,

and we've evolved, and I think that the speaking of faith title is just not spacious enough for what

the show has become. And then the word faith is loaded, and we keep, you know, we just, I kind of

thought we could unload it. I thought it was actually really important when we first started this

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