[Ipg-smz] Which of your friends/family have you (relatively unexpectedly) gotten to quote for an article?

[Alan Zeichick]

Only one that I can think of, but in the role of editor, not writer.

For a story many years ago about adaptive technology, I suggested the writer talk to a friend of mine, a photographer who mostly lost his sight, but managed to continue his trade with the right tools. He turned out to be a great interview.

-A

> On Nov 15, 2019, at 8:20 AM, Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
> 
> Just idle contemplation here, based on a recent online conversion with my high school sweetheart… who became a successful VC in biotech, and is now retired. I was thinking how odd it was that I never had a reason to ask him for input on a story.
> 
> On the other hand, I once got to interview my first cousin, a VP at Warner Brothers (off the record) about the future of movie distribution and the technology needed to accomplish it. And not long ago I quoted a high school friend — who’d become an IT recruiter — for a career-related story.
> 
> There’s a particular pleasure in those experiences, at least for me. It’s like discovering another facet to your relationship, and learning something new about a person whom you’ve known your whole life. Something positive, that is, since they are authoritative enough on the subject to obviously have useful information to add.
> 
> So whom have you gotten to quote?
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