{"id":729,"date":"2018-07-02T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/?p=729"},"modified":"2018-07-02T22:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:40:59","slug":"getting-out-of-my-head-getting-the-story-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/2018\/07\/02\/getting-out-of-my-head-getting-the-story-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting out of my head, getting the story out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Day 1, our first task was naming our project. Just like I feared, I immediately clammed up. \u00a0What am I supposed to do\u2014come up with ideas? Like a real journalist? After a long silence, my mentor Cheryl cocked her head to the side and said, \u201cCan I offer an observation? \u00a0You <i>really<\/i> live in your head.\u201d \u00a0Guilty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-742 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-1-for-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-1-for-web.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-1-for-web-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-1-for-web-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-1-for-web-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-1-for-web-1080x797.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kate talked a lot in our interview about how hard she\u2019s worked to trust herself. I thought about it often while structuring my story, especially while cutting material that struck me deeply (as our editor Celeste called it, \u201ckilling puppies\u201d). \u00a0I thought about it as I struggled to sever my personal experience with OCD from the professional experience of reporting on it. Ultimately, I realized that I had to trust my audience to do the interpreting for themselves. My job was not to tell my audience what to think\u2014it was to tell them what happened. In 2018, the idea feels both tired and revolutionary. This week, my mentors showed me why we can\u2019t ever let it go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-744 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-3-for-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-3-for-web.jpg 794w, https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-3-for-web-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-3-for-web-768x1161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/Christina-3-for-web-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately, I realized that I had to trust my audience to do the interpreting for themselves. My job was not to tell my audience what to think\u2014it was to tell them what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whyy2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}