Connie Walker on Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s

A deeply-personal investigation of the Canadian Indian residential school system

Matt here. Thanks for being part of the Origin Stories community. Our guest is Connie Walker, a veteran Cree journalist, and the first podcaster to win both the Pulitzer Prize and a Peabody Award in the same year.

Connie is one of the most ethical journalists I know – she thinks deeply about the sensitivities of both her subjects and her listeners. It's a surprisingly uncommon skill, and one I was eager to better understand.

She talks about the backstory of “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's," a deeply-personal investigation of the Canadian Indian residential school system, which she reported while at Gimlet.

To Connie, all great audio documentaries should hinge on “a question that you're trying to answer. It doesn't have to be the question that you end up asking the whole way through,” she says. “But initially, you have to start with that.”

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Thanks,

Matt