A lot of times you're writing too many questions to make sure you get them to all these points you think they should hit. And then sometimes things just like come to you in the midst of the interview. So even if i don't get there, it's a fun exercise. Do you get there every time? Probably not every time, but that's the goal.
Sam Sanders is the former host of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute. He hosts Vulture’s Into It, which launched last week.
“I don’t think I ever wanted a career where I was doing the same thing for 30 years. I think that, editorially, I had become someone who was really contemplating what kind of capital-j journalist I wanted to be, want to be, and I was questioning a lot of rules and the structure of what we think journalism is supposed to be, and I think I needed to be away from a legacy institution like NPR, at least for a spell, to work that out.”
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