If you ever wondered about a career in audio journalism, you shouldn’t miss an Evening with Sarah Ventre, 7 p.m. ET Monday, January 8
The webinar, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists DC Pro chapter, is free and open to all journalists and journalism students. It will be moderated by DC Pro vice president Celia Wexler.
Sarah Ventre, is a graduate of Arizona State University, has been in the journalism business for about a dozen years. Her career history marks a path that has led to both steady career success and advancement. She has produced for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, Vox, Critical Frequency, Crooked Media, Campside Media, The African American Policy Forum, Center for Science and the Imagination, and The Moth. Her podcast, Unfinished: Short Creek, about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border, was named one of 2020’s top podcasts by both The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and her reporting there won an Edward R. Murrow award for journalistic excellence. Ventre will discuss her career in audio investigative journalism, the perils and promise of embedded reporting, and how she has survived and thrived in a changing media landscape.
