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So when I was a little girl, I used to watch the evening news every single night with my family.
They called it the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
We would all be getting ready to have dinner. It was six of us on the south side of Chicago. Mom was always making a meal for us. And I loved watching the news, the television news. The message to the country is, free yourself by freeing us. So much was happening.
Man finally has visited the moon after all the ages of wishing and waiting.
And we watched all the time. But the thing is, is that I never saw anyone who looked like me or my family. I never saw people like us in all of the television news that I was consuming. And of course, that made me think, like, how many other people are out there whose stories aren't being told, right? That kind of planted a seed in my head.
So fast forward from that to getting to New York, going to Barnard College, and becoming a part of the college radio station, creating my own show called Nueva Canción y Demás. Esta canción del pueblo... pretende hacer un recorrido a través de la historia de nuestro país. We would play Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes, all the protest music de la nueva canción from Latin America.
We talked Latin American politics. And I was a kid behind a microphone right here in New York City, and I was reaching into people's homes with my voice on the radio. And it always made me think, like, am I reaching a little kid just like me? Like, is that little kid going to hear me on the radio? and say, wow, she sounds like me. She's telling stories about people that I know.
So I did stick with this notion of becoming a journalist. And I got to some pretty incredible networks. I worked with NPR. I worked with CBS. I worked with CNN, WNYC, WNBC. And when I was in those newsrooms, I got a chance to see what they operated like. But I also got a chance to think about what kind of newsroom that I would have if I had my own newsroom.
And I wanted to have a newsroom where it was like the journalism was 100% researched, fact-checked. But I wanted to create storytelling and journalism that touched people's hearts, right? I wanted to make people feel something. Now, when I reported at many of these networks, I was very clear about the fact that part of my responsibility was to bring these stories into the newsroom.
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