News Anchors: Beyond the Voice

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Speaking style is just one part of the news anchor archetype. Sia Nyorkor, a TV news anchor and reporter in Cleveland, talks about the pressure anchors feel to look a certain way — especially when it comes to their hair. Duke professor Ashleigh Shelby Rosette has studied attitudes towards hair in the workplace and gives us the wide shot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Mallory, me again.
0:03.0	Hi, Flora. How's it going?
0:05.0	Good.
0:09.0	So last episode we extinguished your burning question.
0:12.0	Why did news anchors talk in that recognizable anchor voice?
0:16.0	We found that anchor style traces back to the accent
0:19.0	of white Midwestern men almost a century ago.
0:22.0	And that even today there's plenty of bias against people
0:25.0	whose accents don't conform.
0:27.0	And if you haven't heard that episode, listen to that one first
0:30.0	because Mallory's question opened like a whole Pandora's voice box.
0:34.0	In my head it just seemed like a simple question
0:36.0	like, oh, they all sound the same.
0:38.0	So like, what's that about?
0:40.0	I honestly did not think that it would take me here.
0:43.0	And we're not even there yet.
0:45.0	This new story continues because anchor voice is just one part
0:48.0	of the anchor persona.
0:51.0	Tell me more.
0:53.0	It's funny because I usually get more questions about appearance and hair
1:00.0	more so than my voice.
1:03.0	I want to introduce you to Cia New Yorker.
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