22 min
#86: Erika Alexander on Finding Tamika On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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“They had told the story of how Tamika died, but not how she lived.”
—Podcast Producer Erika Alexander
“Finding Tamika” is the 2023 duPont-winning Audible series about Tamika Huston, a Black woman who went missing in 2004. The media paid scant attention, and she became a rallying cry for missing Black women and girls. But who was she outside of this tragedy?
Podcast producer Erika Alexander tells us why finding the real Tamika behind the crime statistic is so important, and how journalists need to do a better job of telling these stories.
“They had told the story of how Tamika died, but not how she lived.”
—Podcast Producer Erika Alexander
“Finding Tamika” is the 2023 duPont-winning Audible series about Tamika Huston, a Black woman who went missing in 2004. The media paid scant attention, and she became a rallying cry for missing Black women and girls. But who was she outside of this tragedy?
Podcast producer Erika Alexander tells us why finding the real Tamika behind the crime statistic is so important, and how journalists need to do a better job of telling these stories.
22 min