When a reporter's notebook won't do
Published: December 29, 2004
Next time you're about to throw out the cardboard that's sold with men's shirts, you may want to consider its journalistic value.
Gay Talese cuts up such shirtboard into narrow strips that he usually carries with him when reporting. Stiff, but not bulky like a reporter's notebook, the strips are good for letting him furtively jot down notes.
"When I'm using these, I'm usually just getting a sense of things that I want to be reminded of," he says. "I'm obviously not going to get much on this. But it's like the one, two, three, four, five points we discussed today."
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