Why the news is so broken, according to one of the first journalists to cover Trump’s campaign

Jul 9, 2022 27 min

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Katy Tur’s parents were trailblazers in the journalism world. In the ’80s and ’90s, they revolutionized the breaking-news model, literally flying over the competition in their own chopper to capture Los Angeles’s biggest stories — from Madonna and Sean Penn’s wedding to the 1992 L.A. riots. Katy Tur grew up to be a journalist herself — she’s now an anchor on MSNBC — and she writes about her life in her new memoir, <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/rough-draft/id1551656569">Rough Draft</a>. In an interview with <a href="https://apple.news/T9rjlxm95TtTn3RWUl4SFiw">Apple New In Conversation</a> host Shumita Basu, Tur discusses her unusual childhood and the direct line from the model of journalism her parents created to the rise of Donald Trump.

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