How journalists memorialize their interviews seems to be divided, in many ways, along generational lines, with older reporters relying more on their notebooks and younger reporters clinging to their recording devices, which were once clunky and somewhat forbidding but came into wider use around the end of the 20th century with the advent of digital technology. But it also depends on the person.
@c Thanks for that link. Loved the piece, esp. Gay Talese!
@the it really was the best part, wasn’t it?!