1 hr 10 min
Ronan Farrow, investigative journalist, New Yorker. My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
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- Video Games
My guest today is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist. Born in New York City he earned his degree in philosophy at just fifteen. While a teenager he served as a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth, advocating for children and women caught up in the Darfur crisis in Sudan. In 2009, at 22 years old, he became a special advisor to the Obama administration, then a Rhodes Scholar, earning his PhD in political science at Magdalen College, Oxford.
It was his work detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, published in the New Yorker, that situated my guest in the centre of the global spotlight, however. His reporting has had profound effects, both within the film industry, and further afield.
Through all of this, video games have been a constant. “I love video games,” he told the New York Times in 2021. “Big nerd here."
Play the console:
RivenDeus ExBloodborneOuter WildsDisco Elysium
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My guest today is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist. Born in New York City he earned his degree in philosophy at just fifteen. While a teenager he served as a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth, advocating for children and women caught up in the Darfur crisis in Sudan. In 2009, at 22 years old, he became a special advisor to the Obama administration, then a Rhodes Scholar, earning his PhD in political science at Magdalen College, Oxford.
It was his work detailing allegations of sexual misconduct against the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, published in the New Yorker, that situated my guest in the centre of the global spotlight, however. His reporting has had profound effects, both within the film industry, and further afield.
Through all of this, video games have been a constant. “I love video games,” he told the New York Times in 2021. “Big nerd here."
Play the console:
RivenDeus ExBloodborneOuter WildsDisco Elysium
Thank you for listening to My Perfect Console. Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter; your small monthly subscription will help to make the podcast sustainable for the long term, and you'll receive bonus content, and access to the My Perfect Console community: https://www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole
Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1 hr 10 min