“The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think they already know about, or think they don't need to know about?” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsCareChallengesSubjectsJournalismNarrative Author:Sarah Stillman
“Often, I'm spending months with a person in a very intimate context, getting to know the ins and outs of what they ate for breakfast, not to mention dredging up the most traumatic experiences of their lives, digging through their documents and photographs from difficult times, all of that. And that process, I think, can be extraordinarily strange for subjects who've never been interviewed before, especially if you don't acquaint them from the get-go with what you're trying to do, what it entails, and why you care.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingPersonsCareProcessDifficultSubjectsStrangeMonthsPhotographSpendingIntimateBreakfastDocumentsDifficult TimesDiggingTraumatic ExperiencesDredging Author:Sarah Stillman
“I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.” ThinkingKnowsTwoStoriesThreeSidesCommonFourMissingFocusedNarrativeCrucialMarginsUnfoldingOne DirectionMissing Something Author:Sarah Stillman
“I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it seemed so ill-suited for my personality, or I thought it was ill-suited for my personality, insofar as I'm not very aggressive, and I'm not confrontational.” KnowsWantWritingWantedPersonalityIllAggressive Author:Sarah Stillman
