Sometimes nothing can mean everything

Most of the time, a talkative interviewee is a boon for journalists looking to provide as much detail as possible in their reports. However, when it comes to disaster-related stories, I think less is more.

My most memorable experience of 2018 was visiting Sichuan province to interview survivors of the magnitude 8 earthquake that devastated Wenchuan county on the afternoon of May 12, 2008, killing more than 70,000 people.

It was there I realized that "the more, the better" is sometimes not true.