And I felt like I did it a few times and got lucky. I was sort of looking for something new and interesting to do that might catch people’s eye, but I’m not sure I really, truly believed that everybody had a story. I sort of went into this only half believing in the concept. Steve: I’m learning that people are a lot more interesting than I thought they were before I started this. Jill: As you travel the country at the whim of a dart, what are you learning? Hartman recently was on The Poynter Institute’s guest faculty for “TV & Power Reporting for Reporters and Photojournalists.” During a break, he sat down with Jill Geisler, the Leadership & Management Group Leader, to talk about how he does what he does best: intimate and insightful portraits on everyday people. Actually, Hartman got the idea for the segment from newspaper reporter David Johnson of Idaho’s Lewiston Morning Tribune. Admittedly, it’s a unique way of getting a story, but his “Everybody Has a Story” segments on CBS’s The Early Show are being emulated on local newscasts and in newspapers across the country. Once the dart lands on a town, Steve Hartman goes there and calls someone up on the phone and interviews them. Over a shoulder, the dart is thrown, and where it stops no one knows. “I like to say that tears make for good television, but only if they’re yours.”
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