Episode 36: Nathan Thornburgh
This week, Gangrey: The Podcast gets a makeover.\n\nThis week\u2019s episode has three segments, starting with Nathan Thornburgh, a chief editor and publisher of the website roadsandkingdoms.com. Thornburgh spent much of the last decade as a foreign correspondent and editor for TIME Magazine. He\u2019s reported on everything from cyber war in Russia to information wars in Georgia \u2013 not the state Georgia, by the way \u2014 to drug wars in Juarez. He also co-founded the parenting blog DadWagon.\n\nWe\u2019re going to talk about his story, \u201cThe Root of All Things.\u201d Mike Wilson mentioned the story in Episode 34 and said he had been told about the piece by one of his reporters at the Dallas Morning News.\n\nThe story is also going to be republished in River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative this fall. Last spring, River Teeth republished Justin Heckert\u2019s \u201cSusan Cox is No Longer Here,\u201d which originally ran in Indianapolis Monthly Magazine.\n\nIn the second segment, I talk with David Caswell. Caswell has created a new news database called Structured Stories. He hopes the database will empower everyone to collect, use and improve a permanent record of news events.\n\nFinally, the third segment will be something new called \u201cRequired Reading.\u201d This week, I\u2019ll tell you about two stories I\u2019ve recently read that I think everyone should also read. The stories are \u201cBallad of the Sad Climatologists,\u201d by John H. Richardson, which ran in Esquire. The other story is \u201cThe Really Big One,\u201d by Katherine Schultz, which ran in The New Yorker.\n\nIn the future, though, we hope podcast listeners will contribute to this segment. We\u2019ll have more posted on the website about how to get involved.