Once you produce a product and it goes out into the world, whether that's to a newswire or an agency or whatever, you don't have control over it.
My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.
American public should understand what happened with adoption and why, so that our government can be held accountable moving forward, and we can know how to engage in ethical adoptions, know how to make it something good for everyone involved, not exploitative.
I was always looking for holes in the stories, to the very end, until I was really satisfied that I believed in it and could back it up five different ways.
If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.
I don't think crowdfunding is a good idea for journalism in general. Good work should be supported by news organizations, and publishers should pony up money to support investigative reporting. But we're in hard times, so there are upsides and downsides to it.
One of my failings as a new reporter is that I don't know when to stop. It's a very fine line, and I think that's a really important skill to have - to know when to stop asking questions. I’m still trying to figure that out.
