‘Let Him Hang Himself’
Journalists react to the ethics of cozying up to a source. Especially when that source is the known sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. • 20m Listen
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Reporter Brian Reed re-examines everything about journalism, the profession he thought he knew. In the middle of making his second hit podcast, Brian got sued. Accused. Told the biggest story of his career — the Peabody Award-winning series S-Town — wasn’t journalism. Which meant he had to spend years proving that it was. Obsessing over the question, “What is journalism, anyway?”