Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think they already… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars. — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
