Telling The Story

This year has been a blast. Since launching the Telling The Story podcast in April, I have interviewed twelve great journalists and storytellers about their work. With the year wrapping up, I decided to take a look back. I compiled some of the best moments from the past year into a "Best Of" advice edition of the Telling The Story podcast. Hear from eight terrific storytellers about their thoughts on what makes a great storyteller, such as: Jon Shirek: my first podcast guest and my co-worker at WXIA-TV in Atlanta Anne Herbst: a versatile news photographer and now assistant chief photographer at KDVR-TV in Denver Matt Detrich: a longtime staff photographer at the Indianapolis Star Andrew Carroll: the author of the fascinating new book, Here Is Where Roman Mars: the esteemed host of 99% Invisible, and my most popular podcast guest to date Erin Brethauer: multimedia editor of the Asheville Citizen-Times, and -- for a week this year -- the overseer of the New Yorker's Instagram account Tomas Rios: a self-describ