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People can’t stop raving about the Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Just check out the headlines.
Poynter: Oprah Winfrey’s brilliance shows in a stunning interview with Harry and Meghan
Inc.: Oprah Winfrey’s Meghan and Harry Interview Was a Master Class in Emotional Intelligence
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The Washington Post: Oprah proved she is greatest celebrity interviewer of all time. All journalists can learn from her.
San Diego journalism guru Dean Nelson, who literally wrote the book on interviewing people like a pro, agrees that the Oprah Winfrey interview was skillful, for a couple of reasons, as he explains on our new podcast, and below. Nelson may be an expert on asking great questions, but he has plenty of stories to tell when the tables are turned.
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When Kelly Marie Tran left her San Diego hometown to pursue an acting career at UCLA, she didn’t have to travel far, just up the highway.
But look at how far she’s gone since: to space as Rose Tico, a pioneering character in the Star Wars sequels “The Last Jedi” and “The Rise of Skywalker,” and now into the history books as the voice of Raya in the latest Disney-animated movie, “Raya and the Last Dragon.” The Vietnamese American actress plays a young warrior on a journey to find a dragon to restore the fractured and divided world she lives in, and she is the first actress of Southeast Asian descent to lead a Walt Disney Animation Studios movie.
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Marisa Reichardt had no idea in 2018 that a pandemic would so alter the world and spur scientists to develop a vaccine in record time when she decided to write a YA novel centered around a teen fighting for the right to be vaccinated.
Now, of course, she seems almost clairvoyant because of the subject of her new book, “A Shot at Normal,” out this month. But the Coronado High School grad is as stunned about the timing as you are.
“To say that that’s surreal is selling it short,” she said on the Name Drop San Diego podcast. “It’s bizarre.”