D’Anna’s Takeaways from His Assignment
Apart from the realization that his assignment had an immense impact on people’s lives, D’Anna took away another key lesson: stories such as Elliot’s remind us who we are and where we come from. A true journalist and storyteller always take his responsibilities seriously and honorably.
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“Something else that I think is important as journalists: we’re always told ‘you should never become a part of this story’… I did become a part of this story,” he relates. “I’m not saying we should be involved in every story, but I think that, if we ever stop responding to our sources and our readers and the subjects we write about if we ever stopped responding to them as human beings, then we might as well hang it up.”