Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers
Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for \u201cInside Wagner,\u201d their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic.\xa0\n\u201cOne of the best takeaways I got from seven or eight years at Vice is that it\u2019s not enough for something to be important when you\u2019re figuring out how to make a story. It\u2019s the intersection of important and interesting. And that has taught me that people will watch anything, anywhere, as long as it\u2019s interesting. Nobody owes us their time. The onus is on us to explain things in an interesting, compelling way. I\u2019m hoping that a landscape opens up somewhere else that sees that and understands that can be done anywhere in the world.\u201d\nThis is the first in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's\xa0George Polk Awards in Journalism.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices