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Journalism is largely about finding the right story. But it was still jarring to watch you in the documentary go from village to village, trying to find someone whose suffering was dramatic enough to qualify them to be your main character.
It's really tough when you interview somebody and they describe how they've been shot or they've lost their cousin, and you say - "Oh, you were only shot in the leg" or "It was only your cousin." The truth is I know that if under the next tree...
How much of your work is aimed at the average reader and how much are you writing for policymakers?
Do you think that happened with your writing about Darfur?
It's good to pick one issue or cause that speaks to you and then to get engaged. Write checks, sure, but maybe do more than that. If you can, go visit a project, write letters, volunteer. Really make it part of your life. When we wrote Half the Sky...