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The Armenian Weekly Podcast

The Armenian Weekly Podcast

The Armenian Weekly

A podcast with an Armenian accent.

3 - Exploring the Grey Areas in Armenian Politics with Emil Sanamyan
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  • 3 - Exploring the Grey Areas in Armenian Politics with Emil Sanamyan

    Journalism can be a polarizing industry. In an increasingly competitive digital landscape, stories featuring clear villains and protagonists vie for our attention and our eyeballs. It's not to say those stories aren't true. But often, the reality behind them isn't so black and white. In fact, just about anywhere you look, there tends to be a lot more grey area than many news stories let on. And that grey area is the space I think we need to be spending more time in, which is why this month, I invited Baku-born journalist and researcher, Emil Sanamyan, to the show. Emil is the former Washington Bureau editor of the now-defunct newspaper, The Armenian Reporter. In this episode, we explore some of the grey areas of Armenian politics and culture.

    Mon, 5 Aug 2019 - 36min
  • 2 - A Conversation with Steve Kurkjian

    Stephen Kurkjian is your quintessential Bostonian: a red-blooded and Red Sox-loving native of Dorchester, blessed with the gift of gab and a hearty appetite for a good story. Those last two things, he made a career of. He’s retired now, but for the last half century, Kurkjian has covered some of the most important events in our nation’s history for the Boston Globe newspaper, where his investigative work has earned him three Pulitzer prizes. He is a founding member of the award-winning Spotlight team, whose hard-hitting local stories—which include the clergy abuse scandals of the early 2000s—have helped make Boston a better city for all. But Boston is, if anything, a tribal sort of place, and Kurkjian has always felt a certain privilege at being a member of one particular tribe: the Armenian diaspora, a long-standing immigrant community that has made a name for itself in the area since escaping genocide over a hundred years ago. It wasn’t until later in life—too late for his own liking—that he realized his family’s history extended far beyond the dark-haired loudmouths he grew up with on the streets of Dorchester. And much of his recent work has been spent documenting what he's found. In our latest episode of the Armenian Weekly Podcast, former editor Karine Vann sat down with Steve to talk about growing up Armenian in Boston, his time at the Globe uncovering some of the greatest scandals of our era, and literally everything in between.

    Wed, 5 Jun 2019 - 51min
  • 1 - An Interview with Irina Ghaplanyan

    In this pilot episode, recorded in May of 2018 shortly after Armenia's nationwide revolution, the Weekly’s assistant editor, Karine Vann, interviews political analyst Irina Ghaplanyan, author of the recent book, Post-Soviet Armenia: The New National Elite and the New National Narrative. The interview covers a number of topics, including the evolution of Armenia’s political elite from independence until now; insight into what kinds of factors made the April 2018 Velvet Revolution possible; the role of media in the protests; and suggestions on how to bridge the divides between journalism in the Diaspora and Armenia.

    Mon, 20 May 2019 - 36min