I think when i first started out as a writer, i've got to do these flowery dances. That's where i would get really stuck. And so one great thing about being at the new yorker ive realized it's like, they're cool with just say, the sets of things that happen and ik get out of your own way. Those are the moments that make reporting really, i don't know what o get interesting and enriching for me. I'm always trying to capture them to the extent that i can, on the page.
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the director of the Global Migration Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She won the George Polk Award for "The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters."
“I’m all about the Venn diagram where the individual meaningful stories of things people are up against intersect with the big systemic injustice issues of our day. It feels like climate is clearly an enormous domain where it’s been hard in some ways to tell substantive stories of where actual human beings are navigating and pushing back on some of these huge cultural forces.”
This is the third in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
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