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Today on The Stacks, we’re joined by ProPublica reporter and The New York Times Magazine staff writer, Pamela Colloff, to discuss her book, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast. This book delves into the life of career con man Paul Skalnik, whose pattern of trading fabricated prison confessions for his own freedom landed a Vietnam veteran on death row for a murder he didn’t commit. We talk about the power of investigative journalism, the hard lessons Pamela has learned as a journalist, and why people are fascinated by con...
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I had done all the things. I had gotten my National Magazine Award wins, and I had done every kind of story you can imagine. I got to ProPublica, and I was like, wait, I'm not an—these people are investigative
journalists. Like, I'm just a magazine writer. There was such a learning curve. It was learning on the job, right?
It was learning as you go. And it's so fun. I mean, I feel like that's the thing that's sometimes lost with investigative journalism when people talk about it is you're uncovering a mystery. Welcome to The Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.
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