In episode 3 of Outside the Looking Glass, Tia Mitchell, Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, takes us through her career journey as a political reporter while discussing concepts of personal identity within journalism. Topics include: Mitchell's first-ever "journalism" award coming in second grade due to a book she'd written about fish; the intricacies of covering local vs. state governments; the concept of journalistic bias and how drawing on one's personal experience can actually help with becoming a better reporter; and deciding over time to stop code-switching as a black woman to appease the traditional prism of how a journalist should behave.
