WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.370 line:15% My name is Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, and I am a 2 00:00:03.370 --> 00:00:06.640 line:15% journalist and staff writer at Global Sisters Report. 3 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:10.160 line:15% The Global Sisters Report is the nun vertical 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:11.830 line:15% for the National Catholic Reporter, 5 00:00:11.830 --> 00:00:15.060 line:15% so we are a journalism project that is all about 6 00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:17.080 line:15% Catholic nuns all around the world, 7 00:00:17.080 --> 00:00:19.200 line:15% and I write about nuns every day. 8 00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:22.180 line:15% I am very, very blessed at Global Sisters Report 9 00:00:22.180 --> 00:00:24.969 line:15% that my kind of output, my schedule is 10 00:00:24.969 --> 00:00:27.210 line:15% whatever I want it to be. (laughs) 11 00:00:27.210 --> 00:00:28.740 line:15% We're an online only publication, 12 00:00:28.740 --> 00:00:30.790 line:15% so we don't have print deadlines. 13 00:00:30.790 --> 00:00:32.780 line:15% I'm just wrapping up a story now 14 00:00:32.780 --> 00:00:34.710 line:15% that I've been working on for two months, 15 00:00:34.710 --> 00:00:37.970 line:15% which is a luxury we don't often have in journalism anymore, 16 00:00:37.970 --> 00:00:40.460 line:15% but I like it 'cause I like to write long, 17 00:00:40.460 --> 00:00:41.920 line:15% I like to write slow. 18 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:43.970 line:15% I'm a magazine girl through and through. 19 00:00:43.970 --> 00:00:46.830 line:15% So I am really into social justice issues, 20 00:00:46.830 --> 00:00:48.700 line:15% so I find whatever it is. 21 00:00:48.700 --> 00:00:52.160 line:15% I've written on mass incarceration, food access, 22 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:55.030 line:15% racism in the church, racism in the community, 23 00:00:55.030 --> 00:00:58.530 line:15% and I find the nuns who are doing ministries in that. 24 00:00:58.530 --> 00:01:01.100 line:15% I've also, you know, written the one-off stories 25 00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:04.290 line:15% about nuns doing cool things like a 74-year-old nun 26 00:01:04.290 --> 00:01:07.330 line:15% who lives in the Arctic Circle doing a ministry there 27 00:01:07.330 --> 00:01:09.050 line:15% with the native community because 28 00:01:09.050 --> 00:01:11.538 line:15% that's what she wanted to do after her retirement. 29 00:01:11.538 --> 00:01:14.288 line:15% A lot of the times I do pick my own topics. 30 00:01:14.288 --> 00:01:17.090 line:15% I like to consider those my passion projects. 31 00:01:17.090 --> 00:01:19.700 line:15% I do about three a year because I take 32 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:21.549 line:15% a little bit longer to work on those, 33 00:01:21.549 --> 00:01:24.900 line:15% but I do also do breaking nun news, it does happen, 34 00:01:24.900 --> 00:01:27.870 line:15% so we've got right now some nuns, 35 00:01:27.870 --> 00:01:30.980 line:15% the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in Pennsylvania, 36 00:01:30.980 --> 00:01:33.887 line:15% who are trying to stop a pipeline from being 37 00:01:33.887 --> 00:01:37.230 line:15% installed in their land, so they've built a chapel 38 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:40.730 line:15% over the pathway, and so I'm constantly 39 00:01:40.730 --> 00:01:44.270 line:15% chasing their court cases and their court appearances, 40 00:01:44.270 --> 00:01:46.170 line:15% so I can write breaking news on what's happening 41 00:01:46.170 --> 00:01:48.450 line:15% with the nuns' pipeline. (laughs) 42 00:01:48.450 --> 00:01:52.200 line:15% So once I have an idea for a story, or it is assigned to me, 43 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.620 line:15% I get on the phone and I call, call, call, call, call. 44 00:01:55.620 --> 00:01:57.660 line:15% I think one of the things I was surprised to learn 45 00:01:57.660 --> 00:01:59.630 line:15% about journalism is that it's not a lot of 46 00:01:59.630 --> 00:02:02.310 line:15% going in the field and you know, talking to people, 47 00:02:02.310 --> 00:02:03.480 line:15% man on the street anymore. 48 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.961 line:15% It's a lot of sitting at your desk and calling people. 49 00:02:05.961 --> 00:02:08.880 line:15% So I call lots of nuns, lots of institutions 50 00:02:08.880 --> 00:02:11.760 line:15% that might be nun-adjacent, or at least 51 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:15.020 line:15% Catholic institutions, and then I find who I need to talk to 52 00:02:15.020 --> 00:02:17.480 line:15% and I ask them all the relevant questions 53 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:18.990 line:15% or ask them who I need to talk to 54 00:02:18.990 --> 00:02:20.700 line:15% if they're not the right person, 55 00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:24.510 line:15% and I probably report, depending on the story, 56 00:02:24.510 --> 00:02:27.180 line:15% for a month if it's one of the longer stories. 57 00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:29.241 line:15% If it's a deadline story, I spend 58 00:02:29.241 --> 00:02:31.913 line:15% an hour reporting and then I start writing.