I want to really tell stories deeply like you just have to kind of listen, be there and put yourself aside. It's not really about you in those moments. I think I had a lot of support at the newspaper because I became a national correspondent. My career is covering like the Virginia Tech shootings years ago,. Getting to this campus swarms from media all over the world. Everybody's trying to cover this terrible tragic story. That's the job.
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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