EPISODE 12: THE POWER OF VOICE IN STORYTELLING
JOIN US FOR A ROUND TABLE WITH with guest Koralie Barrau AS WE DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF VOICE WHEN IT COMES TO STORYTELLING.
THE ROUND TABLE EXPLORES
Join the conversation with guest Koralie Barrau, journalist and producer with BBC World News. Together, we discuss the change in journalism since the 24 hour news cycle, the possibilities of creativity in broadcast media, and the importance of diversity and representation and how it shapes the stories that are being told to modern audiences.
“And I found that I was getting a little bit swallowed into the daily news grind. So that inspired me to really do my masters and my masters was in media communication and international development. So it was really focused about how do I tell stories from the global south, whose voice matters, who has power, who is ‘the other’ that news organizations often reference and yeah, that took me to London where I did a masters in that.
And it reframed everything I thought about news, US news, media, global news media, and really I ask critical questions like who gets to speak and why.” - Koralie Barrau
Such an important and timely conversation, let’s listen and learn together.
“Especially in breaking news situations, as a producer, many times you just go to the voice where that responds the fastest, go to the person whose email is in their Twitter handle. Go to the person who we’ve had on a thousand different times. But that person isn’t always the right person.
And I really had to take a step, and I remember talking to my boss and I was thinking, okay, ‘Why is this person on, does this person need to be on? And let’s take a look that who’s getting on.’”
MEET THE GUEST
KORALIE BARRAU. is producer with BBC World News, where she highlights critical news stories in the US and abroad and produces the nightly television show BBC World News America. She's been at the frontline of major news stories like the Derek Chauvin trial and the last two US presidential elections, and has worked in the UK, Paris, and Haiti, and Washington. As a lifelong creative, she likes to think of herself as a 'media-for- development' advocate and aims to shed light on underreported stories and communities. Most recently- she's just produced a documentary on the debate for reparations on the island of Grenada.