Hi, it's Aaron.
This week on the long form podcast, we're talking to winners of the George Polk Award for journalism.
It's something we've done for the last couple years on the show.
This episode, I talked to Laurie Hinnon from the AP.
So Laurie is based in Paris, but she worked with a team, including Mr. Slough, Churnoff,
and others that she talks about in the interview, who were reporting from within Ukraine,
specifically within the city of Mariapol, as it fell.
Eventually, they became the last journalists who were there.
So this is Laurie Hinnon from the AP.
Welcome Laurie Hinnon to the long form podcast.
Thank you.
I wonder,
you are a winner of this year's Polk Awards for work you did with the AP and some other journalists in Ukraine.
I wonder if you could just sort of briefly tell us like who was in this team other than you?
Our team was Mr. Slough, Churnoff, Vasylisa Stepanenko, and Yevgeny Maloletka, and me.
And the three of them started out in Eastern Ukraine, which is, as it happens, where all of them are from.
And they knew even before the war started
that Eastern Ukraine was going to be where all of the action was going to take place.
As a editor and reporter at the AP,
do you have teams like this sort of in the field in different parts of the world at all times?