Video interview with Pulitzer Prize, William Finnegan

The journalist offered us an in-depth interview about his professional life; his beginnings; his first sorrows and glories; how he began to publish regularly in The New Yorker, and what he thinks of his profession nowadays.

«I wanted to be a writer and, when I was in my twenties, I wrote novels, but I didn’t publish them, so I didn’t make myself a living. I had many little jobs to survive, until I decided to write long, non-fiction journalism,» explains Finnegan.

«There's a big difference between writing from the first person and doing 'objective pure journalism,' written in the third person. And this longer, narrative form allows the reader to locate himself, to be identified with a character, who may be confused when reality is confusing or who may have it all very clear when he properly interpretates facts.

»In the end, doing 'direct' journalism turns out to be too dry, too impersonal; it is not enough,» says Finnegan, author of five journalistic books.