Erika Hayasaki on trauma-informed reporting and celebrating the 'reported essay'

On the debut episode of the Nieman Storyboard podcast, host and Storyboard editor Mark Armstrong sits down with acclaimed journalist and author Erika Hayasaki, for an in-depth conversation about trauma-informed reporting, questions of "telling a story versus taking a story," and when it makes sense for journalists to include their own stories in their work.

Full show notes: https://niemanstoryboard.org/2025/03/28/podcast-erika-hayasaki-trauma-informed-reporting-reported-essay/

Books by Erika Hayasaki

• Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family 
• The Death Class: A True Story About Life

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Show Credits

Hosted and produced by Mark Armstrong
Associate producer: Marina Leigh
Episode editor: Kelly Araja
Audience editor: Adriana Lacy
Promotional support: Ellen Tuttle
Operational support: Paul Plutnicki, Peter Canova

Nieman Foundation curator: Ann Marie Lipinski
Deputy curator: Henry Chu

Music: “Golden Grass,” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Cover design by Adriana Lacy

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