Shumita Basu
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Or take that agency from you.
Exactly.
I mean, did you ever feel that sense yourself internally?
Did you feel yourself...
gravitating toward or away from certain assignments once you became a parent?
At some point in the documentary, you say, I suck as a parent.
I suck as a journalist.
I'm always compromising.
That is such a relatable sentiment for so many working parents.
Add to it the layer of danger involved in a lot of your work.
I guess I just felt like there was something really real and really revealing about hearing you say that.
A lot of parents that I've spoken to who work also and had to kind of reinvent themselves in some way after having kids are
Talk about the benefits of doing that and what they learned about themselves.
I mean, what have you learned about yourself through the experience of becoming a parent and continuing to embrace your work?
You know, just to come back to the work and the impact, the idea of impact.
You've talked about how it feels difficult to hold people's attention in today's news environment, in today's technology environment, social media, information environment, maybe.
And you said it in the film.
You said, it's my job to get people to pay attention.
Yeah.
Long past the time when the spotlight has moved on.