Heidi Blake is a contributing writer for the New Yorker. She was an investigative reporter and ran the Global Investigations team for Buzzfeed News out of the UK. Her book From Russia with Blood reads like a spy novel, she says.
“I definitely feel as an investigative reporter that I feel very driven by my own capacity for shock and outrage and genuinely feeling like this is unbelievable. And that kind of makes me want to keep digging. And once I stop feeling that on any given topic, I lose interest. And so I’ve always been a generalist, and I just kind of rove from one topic to the next. I’m always finding myself in new territory where I know absolutely nothing about the thing I’m starting to dig into and have to try and play catch up and get my head around something new.”