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Extended interview: “Survivor” host and showrunner Jeff Probst

In this web exclusive, Jeff Probst, the host of the reality series “Survivor” since its debut in 2000, talks with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti in Fiji about the social experiment in which strangers stranded on an island must work together – and compete against each other – to win a $1 million prize. Probst, who is also the series showrunner, discusses the improvisational nature of the series as a study of human behavior; the unseen operations of the base camp behind the scenes; how psychology plays into the show’s storytelling, including borrowing tactics used in police interrogation videos in his role as host; and the strength of diversity in the show’s casting process. Source

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Home team

In 2021, Ama Tening Sow, a young boy from Dakar, Senegal, had dreams of playing basketball in the United States. A private high school in Pennsylvania sponsored him, but in 2022, the school went out of business, leaving the 15-year-old homeless and penniless, with nowhere to go. Enter Dave McComb, who was asked if he would take in Ama. Steve Hartman reports on an atypical host family. Source

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Holocaust survivors on bearing witness

It’s estimated that of the 200,000 survivors of the Holocaust still with us, half will be gone in the next 5-7 years, which is why photographer Gillian Laub has been taking photos of as many Holocaust survivors as she can – more than 300 portraits so far. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with Laub about her project, called “Live2Tell.” He also talks with some survivors – models of courage, fortitude and grace – who bear witness to the horrors they experienced, and to the antisemitism they see today in America. As 89-year-old Stella Sonnenschein says, “We have a job to do.” Source

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