36 min listen
Episode 566: Patricia Evangelista
FromLongform
ratings:
Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist whose coverage of the drug war in the Philippines has appeared in Rappler, Esquire, and elsewhere. Her recent book is Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country.
“It is hard to describe the beat I do without saying very often it involves people who have died. And it seemed like an unfair way to frame it. It didn't quite seem right. … Sometimes there's no dead body, or sometimes there's 6,000, but the function is the same: that the people you speak to have gone through enormous painful trauma, and then there's a way to cover it that minimizes that trauma. So … I don't cover the dead. I cover trauma.”
Show notes:
Evangelista's Rappler archive
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Random House • 2023)
01:00 The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord (Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2020)
11:00 Evangelista's Philippine Daily Inquirer archive
21:00 "The Rapture of Rodrigo Duterte" (Patricia Evangelista and Nicole Curato • Rappler • May 2016)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
“It is hard to describe the beat I do without saying very often it involves people who have died. And it seemed like an unfair way to frame it. It didn't quite seem right. … Sometimes there's no dead body, or sometimes there's 6,000, but the function is the same: that the people you speak to have gone through enormous painful trauma, and then there's a way to cover it that minimizes that trauma. So … I don't cover the dead. I cover trauma.”
Show notes:
Evangelista's Rappler archive
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Random House • 2023)
01:00 The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord (Evan Ratliff • Random House • 2020)
11:00 Evangelista's Philippine Daily Inquirer archive
21:00 "The Rapture of Rodrigo Duterte" (Patricia Evangelista and Nicole Curato • Rappler • May 2016)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Released:
Jan 31, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 21: Eli Sanders: Eli Sanders, associate editor at The Stranger and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Show notes: @elijsanders elisanders.com "The Bravest Woman in Seattle" (The Stranger • June 2011) "The Great West Coast Newspaper War" (The Stran by Longform