Interviews - Where Do You Start the Clock?

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"My goal in interviews all the time is just to get people thinking out loud, right?" "I didn't grow up as a minority. I grew up in miami, and everyone spoke spanish," he says of his childhood. "It was surprising to me later in life that actually i was a minority in this country." 'i feel like it particular moment, no one wants to listen to anybody else,' CNN's John Sutter adds.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is a former war correspondent and host of NPR’s Weekend Edition. Her new podcast, for the New York Times, is First Person.

“I would always say that if you go cover a story and you already know what people are going to say, and you already have it in your head what the outcome is, and there's no surprise there, then that's a story that you shouldn't be working on. You have to allow the opportunity for there to be a journey. And for there to be something at the end of it, that is gonna be like, Wow. I really never thought that. I didn't think that I was coming here to report on that, but I guess that's what I'm here to report on.”

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