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    Q&A: Invisibilia Producer Yowei Shaw on "What Was Not Said"

    Invsibilia producer Yowei Shaw tells NPR Extra what it's like working on an all-female team and what went into the episode "What Was Not Said."
    by Eric Lee May 11, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Eric Lee

    Behind the Stories features perspectives from the reporters, editors and producers who create NPR's content, offering insights into how and why they do what they do. For this post, we talked with Invisibilia producer Yowei Shaw about her work on the show and the episode "What Was Not Said?"

    How did you end up as a producer for Invisibilia?I was freelancing in Philadelphia, doing all kinds of audio hustles: temping as a producer for Fresh Air, teaching community media and youth radio, making museum audio tours, reporting short features for public radio, even experimenting a bit in audio art—all to subsidize my real passion of longform.And I was slowly making about one documentary a year (for places like This American, , ) when emailed me out of the blue.

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