For anyone interested in journalism I would suggest putting Anne Hull on your radar. I just finished listening to a talk she gave on ‘reporting place’. She believes in a technique I would tend to call submersion. She suggests that in order to create the atmosphere and enrich the story you have to go out and put yourself in the environment your talking about and often the shoes of the people you are reporting. Often these places aren’t the most comfortable but by hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and feeling you are able to get a lot closer to the story you are trying to report on. A very interesting argument.

Anne Hull is a journalist for the Washington Post.