There鈥檚 Slow Food And Slow Fashion, How About Slow Journalism?

By Anita Rao,

Published March 7, 2018 at 12:24 PM EST

photo of a man steering a motorboat down a river

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Andr茅s de Le贸n steers his motorboat through the mangroves on the way to the mainland. Once a week, he leads a group of men on a daylong harvest; what they bring home is then shared with families who don鈥檛 have access to fresh food and the elderly.";s:

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photo of several men walking through thick vegetation

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Andr茅s de Le贸n leads a group of men through their small banana farm in the mainland forest. The Kuna people have been farming banana, mango, casssava, coconut and other crops sustainably in the forest for hundreds of years.";

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Michelle Cotton is one of the main caregivers for Betty, her 81-year-old mother. She travels to Betty鈥檚 home, three hours outside Los Angeles, on a regular basis and helps prepare her meals and sort of medical care for her. ";

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Michelle Cotton, 62, holds hands with her niece and brother as another sibling leads a prayer on behalf of their mother, Betty.

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is no stranger to deadlines. She has been working as a storyteller and journalist for close to two decades for outlets including NPR, the BBC, National Geographic and The New York Times. But lately she has become increasingly interested in slowing down the reporting process and seeing what happens when she gives herself one month or one year to tell a story, instead of one day or one week.

Slowing down has allowed her to create projects like 鈥�,鈥� a multi-part multimedia series about aging and 鈥�,鈥� a series about the indigenous territory of Guna Yala, Panama. Host Frank Stasio talks with Guidi collaborating more deeply with communities and stakeholders to take journalism beyond the page or podcast. Guidi is the 2018 Susan Tift Fellow with Duke University鈥檚 Center for Documentary Studies. She will speak about her work on in Durham.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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