There’s no such thing as being totally ‘found’…the fun, I think, is in the searching..

I think when I was doing my very first interviews, I probably brought a notepad and did ask people my first fifteen questions while sitting in a Star….

I found it really astonishing that undocumented migrants were kidnapped so routinely, that it was such a commonplace part of the journey for people t….

I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters wh….

When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interest….

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too.".

I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already kno….

One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at….

I always knew I wanted to write, but I didn't know that I would want to do investigative reporting - in part because it seemed so ill-suited for my p….

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process..

The journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, tha….

I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of the job, that you're in th….

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lo….

It's been nice, actually, to keep in touch with a lot of the people and families that I've written about. Like with the kids I was just writing about….

For me, the part of reporting that's the most rewarding and energizing is just hearing directly from people whose voices haven't often been heard, or….

I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go thr….

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into….

One thing I've discovered is that I never think of something that didn't work out as just "something that didn't work out." I think so often with inv….

The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think the….

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the plac….

I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton..