205: Amanda Ruggeri - What makes an expert trustworthy?

The Long Distance Love Bombs Podcast

Amanda Ruggeri is a multi-award-winning journalist and editor who spent eight years on the BBC's international features team. During that time, she was editor of BBC Future (bbc.com/future; a website devoted to in-depth, evidence-based features), managing editor of the BBC.com features teams (managing a team of 20+ editorial and production staff), and a senior journalist. A graduate of Yale (B.A., history) and Cambridge (M.Phil, international relations), Amanda previously worked as a political reporter in Washington, D.C. Now freelance, her beats include the science of parenting, child development, history, and archaeology. She is frequently interviewed as an expert in history documentaries on Ancient Rome, including for Netflix and the History Channel.

She has reported, written, and presented long-form online features and television documentaries from as far afield as Tajikistan and China. These included a half-hour documentary on Maya ruins called Guatemala's Lost World, which won silver in the 2021 Lowell Thomas SATW awards, a written feature on Guatemala's ruins which won gold in the same awards, and a long-form story on Miami's fight against sea level rise, which won the 2019 Journalist Award from the European Meteorological Society.

Her website: https://www.amandaruggeri.com

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