Covering Inequality with Venessa Wong
Leadmore Podcast
English - May 27, 2021 21:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBManagement Business Careers Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When BuzzFeed recognized rising inequality in the wake of the pandemic, the news publisher formed a desk dedicated to the phenomenon, and senior reporter Venessa Wong reframed a decade of experience in business writing to cover its cause and the communities impacted by it.
In episode 51, Venessa and host John T. Meyer unpack the growing wealth gap, where her stories start, and her experience in covering anti-Asian racism as an Asian American journalist.
How Venessa covers the heavy stuff (01:50)Anti-Asian racism (7:37)Where do you start a story? (17:07)Leaders who listen (25:52)How representation impacts leadership (30:03)Rapid fire with Venessa (38:07)Read Venessa’s BuzzFeed stories about inequality.
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