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# Encore: Hala Gorani
- URL: https://www.at-media-group.com/what-i-did-next/hala-gorani-on-returning-to-field-reporting-and-future-of-independent-media/
- Published: 2026-10-06T08:00:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T10:55:32.000Z
- Author: Malak Fouad
- Tags: What I Did Next, #encore, Journalists, Authors

Award-winning anchor, journalist and author Hala Gorani returns to the show to talk about returning to field reporting and the future of journalism & independent media.

Hala also catches me up on what she’s been up to since I [first spoke to her](https://www.at-media-group.com/what-i-did-next/hala-gorani-cnn-journalist-author/) in 2023, right after she had finished writing her book *But You Don’t Look Arab*.

This episode is part of *Encore*, where I check-in with your favourite WIDN alumni. We’ll continue this segment with more of the show’s alumni, so stay tuned.

```chapters
00:00 Coming up
02:20 Reporting: Truth, opinion and now Substack
24:25 Future of independent media
37:52 Lighting Round
```