When I was on the education beat, one of the editors paired me with a great narrative journalist who's an editor. He also edited Enrique's journey which won the Pulitzer Prize. And he handed me a book called story by Robert McKee about screenwriting. And it was like, you know, all these lessons apply to journalism too. It was really interesting and he just sort of taught me to think about reported stories in a different way.
Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family.
“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”
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