Jason Rezaian

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511 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 26 May

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · How the Internet Could Help the Iranian People · 26 May 2026 podcast

But if you get here, then you have to apply for asylum.

And once you apply for asylum, not when the application is approved, but once it starts being processed,

Then it's another 150 days before you can get a work authorization.

You can't open a bank account without work authorization.

Without a bank account, you can't at least rent an apartment.

I mean, the barriers of entry into a life in the United States are really high at this point.

They didn't always used to be that way.

So we're trying to create some tools, mechanisms, opportunities for journalists in those circumstances to not only get out of harm's way and get themselves up and running in the United States, but to help them tool up so that they can credibly and within the framework that our media systems have constructed for itself contribute to the work that we do.

That's my big goal right now when it comes to press freedom.

Take people who have been spat out by the countries that they're from because of the coverage of those countries.

Places where we can't even send reporters to.

And then help them, equip them to support our news gathering.

I think it's really vital.

And I think in the kind of creator journalism space...

I really believe that the future of both the creator space but also the traditional one has to come together, some hybriding, using the benefits and assets and resources that we have in our newsrooms with the nimbleness, the creativity, and the ingenuity of independent journalists.

If we're going to survive, we're going to have to survive together, I think.

I don't know if everybody agrees, but that's me.

I haven't seen Jeff Bezos in several years.

When I was released from prison, he came and picked me up in Germany.

And we've had opportunities to talk about some of these issues, not about the layoffs, which I think was not only gutting for the entire organization, but for readers as well.

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