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All journalists know that what they produce matters, but sometimes it can be easy to forget just how much.

The man who fell to earth, an excellent episode of the Guardian’s Today in Focuspodcast, tells the story of how Esther Addley reported on an airplane stowaway whose dead body was found in a west London car park – only to be contacted by the deceased’s brother 23 years later. The reason: his family had kept her article as a family treasure for decades, prompting him to learn enough English to be able to read the account of his much older sibling’s life – then travel to the UK on his trail. “It is genuinely one of the most powerful and emotional things anyone has ever said to me about my work,” says Addley. “It brings home the responsibility of every story we do.”

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