, the hit podcast from The New York Times, makes its debut on the radio in North Texas on Monday. Host sat down with ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº to talk about what he's learned since the podcast launched in January 2017.
The Daily currently holds down the No. 2 spot on . You can to the radio version weekdays at 7 p.m. on ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 90.1. .
Interview Highlights
On the transition from podcast to public radio: "It's not that much of a leap, because I think we're all in the same business. We tell stories in front of microphones. I just happen to do it from the newsroom of The New York Times. We draw so much inspiration in the way we tell stories from the rich history of public radio storytelling.... There's a reason why our tote bags mean so much to people, why our brands have the kind of emotional bond with people. Because we stand for truth, we stand for integrity, we stand for wrestling with complicated issues."
On how The Daily approached : "We actually enlisted one of our savviest colleagues, Michael Schmidt, who has broken almost every major story in the Russia-Trump investigation. ... And the two of them have a conversation about anonymous sourcing -- how we use them, how we trust them, why they're so valuable in this moment. And we spent days thinking through how to make that interview different from all the other interviews that Bob Woodward did."
On his most surprising interview, with a: "That became a very emotional conversation in which I cried. And I've spent a lot of time trying to understand why this conversation with that coal miner made me so emotional, and I think it had to do with the fact that many of us who covered politics in 2016, the presidential campaign, had to come to grips with the fact that we misunderstood what was happening. We had to reckon with what it meant that we had not quite understood the country we were reporting on."
