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What Paul Salopek Has Learned from Walking Across the World

Season 2026 Episode 8083 | 18m 00s

Now to one man's epic quest to walk in the footsteps of the planet's first humans. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek has spent 13 years walking across four continents, covering more than 38,000 kilometers. Salopek describes the experience as "slow journalism." He speaks to Hari Sreenivasan on the last leg of his odyssey: traveling through North America.

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