Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because… — Sarah Stillman Baghdad 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… — Sarah Stillman Done 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."… — Sarah Stillman Failure 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… — Sarah Stillman Cutting Copy Share Image
I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. — Sarah Stillman Persons 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… — Sarah Stillman Care Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where… — Sarah Stillman Common 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… — Sarah Stillman Compelling 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… — Sarah Stillman Aggressive 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… — Sarah Stillman Breakfast Copy Share Image
People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars. — Sarah Stillman Car 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… — Sarah Stillman College Copy Share Image
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. — Sarah Stillman Attention Copy Share Image
For me, the part of reporting that's the most rewarding and energizing is just hearing directly from people whose voices haven't often… — Sarah Stillman Careers Copy Share Image
One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in… — Sarah Stillman Contact Copy Share Image
Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible… — Sarah Stillman Bizarre Copy Share Image
When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing… — Sarah Stillman Art of war Copy Share Image
I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in… — Sarah Stillman Birth Copy Share Image
I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe… — Sarah Stillman Concerned Copy Share Image
So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really… — Sarah Stillman Be good Copy Share Image
The journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the… — Sarah Stillman And at the end of the day Copy Share Image
I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process. — Sarah Stillman Learning Copy Share Image
It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with… — Sarah Stillman Family Copy Share Image
There’s no such thing as being totally ‘found’…the fun, I think, is in the searching. — Sarah Stillman Found 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… — Sarah Stillman Beats Copy Share Image
