Alisyn Camerota On: Surviving the News, Surviving the Teenage Years, and the Concept of Home
From punk rock to broadcast journalism. A veteran journalist shares her story.
Alisyn Camerota is an award-winning journalist and author. She recently wrote the memoir, Combat Love: A Story of Leaving, Longing, and Searching for Home.
In this episode we talk about:
- Our mutual dislike of covering breaking news
- How her turbulent teenage years helped her prepare for life’s chaos
- What “home” actually means
- How her childhood informed her own parenting style
- The delicate balance between giving your children too little or too much freedom
- What it means for a journalist to center themself in a story
- Surviving the news
- Coping with anxiety and media consumption
- And much more
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