PODCAST: China, Apple Factories, Suicide, and Big Lies

April 26, 2012   •   By Angilee Shah

Rob Schmitz is the Shanghai bureau chief for American Public Media's Marketplace. He broke the story about Mike Daisey, showing that Daisey's reporting on Chinese factory workers for This American Life was full of fabrication. He talks here with Angilee Shah about that story, about reporting in China, and about the problems trying to understand the vast, rapidly changing country. In two parts:  Part 1 click [here].  Part 2 click [here].