Sarah Maslin - São Paulo - The Economist

We go deep on a history of Central American violence with Sarah Esther Maslin (@sarahmaslin). She discusses the years she’s spent reporting out a prospective book about Latin America’s largest modern massacre in El Salvador, stemming from her lifelong fascination with violent tragedies and the marks they leave on society. That project led her to freelance journalism and ultimately to Brazil with The Economist.

Countries featured: Brazil, El Salvador, Argentina

Publications featured: Washington Post, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Economist

Sarah discusses growing up in California and Wisconsin (8:20), her first journalism experiences at Yale (13:44), moving to El Salvador (21:18), getting a pivotal call from the Washington Post to launch her freelance career (29:07), landing a correspondent job at The Economist that sends her to Brazil - a place she had never given much thought before (37:05), a story that got away involving extrajudicial police killings in El Salvador (50:55), her story about horrible prison conditions in El Salvador and how a case of mistaken identity led to a man’s death in jail (57:00) and the lightning round (1:04:31).

Here are some of the things we talked about:

Sarah’s story about global COVID-19 vaccine rollout - http://econ.st/3cDp2SL

New Yorker article about El Mozote massacre - http://bit.ly/2McHO8J

Michael Reid’s book on Brazil - https://amzn.to/2NQ2sMe

Sarah’s story about an innocent man’s death in an El Salvador prison - http://wapo.st/3cr61Th

Ed Yong’s 2018 piece on how the U.S. is not ready for a pandemic - http://bit.ly/3j3c8P5

Yong’s piece on tracking gender in his sources - http://bit.ly/36tVLFZ

Susan Meiselas’ photography work - http://bit.ly/3j05Lfn

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