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Asper Fellow eyes nuance, context in knee-jerk world
From Western News, February 14, 2020By Debora van Brenk
Social media has its place in the debate. But when audiences seek answers to larger questions – Where are we? How did we get here? – veteran Canadian journalist Hannah Sung argues that podcasts offer a unique way of elevating the conversation above the noise.
“The idea of a podcast lends itself to more nuance, more context, less knee-jerk reaction,” explained Sung, who is teaching a Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) graduate course on podcasts this semester. “Social media is all about keeping things out of context and letting it spin out and live in a vacuum of no context. Podcasts, however, are engrossing in terms of your interaction.”
For 20 years, Sung has been a familiar voice in various roles in Canadian media: manager, producer, reporter, VJ, host, podcaster and columnist at TVO, CBC, The Globe and Mail, Much Music and the Toronto Star.
Today, she is the 11th Asper Fellowship in Media at Western (continue reading).
