'The Interview': Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World

《访谈》:艾德·杨想向你展示世界的隐藏现实

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2025-02-22

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
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  • The New York Times app has all this stuff that you may not have seen.

  • The way the tabs are at the.

  • Top with all of the different sections, I can immediately navigate to something that matches what I'm feeling, click wordle or.

  • Connections and then swipe over to read today's headlines.

  • There's an article next to a recipe next to games, and it's just easy to get everything in one place.

  • This app is essential.

  • The New York Times app, all of the times, all in one place.

  • Download it now@nytimes.com from the New York Times, this is the interview.

  • I'm David Marchese.

  • Even now, five years after it started, it's not an easy thing to understand all the lasting effects of the COVID 19 pandemic.

  • That's the case even, and maybe especially for people whose job it was to help the rest of us understand it.

  • The award winning science journalist and author Ed Yong was one of those people.

  • His reporting for the Atlantic magazine on the pandemic from its earliest stages to the plight of those suffering from long Covid earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

  • During that same period, his book An Immense World About Animal Perception became a bestseller.

  • But despite having achieved a level of success that most writers could only dream of, Yang's Covid reporting had left him emotionally drained.

  • In 2023, he quit his day job at the Atlantic.

  • Since then, one of the things that helped him recover is birding, a pastime that boomed in popularity during those years of social distancing and too much time stuck at home.

  • It was Yang's experience with those two subjects, burnout and getting back to nature, that I wanted to discuss, as well as his perspective on the lessons we learned, or maybe more accurately, didn't learn from COVID 19.

  • Here's my conversation with Ed Yong.

  • I wanted to start with a subject that I think a lot of people can relate to, which is burnout.