This was the seventh in the “How I Got That Story” live chat series, which features the 2009 winners of AAN’s annual journalism contest explaining what went into their award-winning stories. (For an archive of the earlier chats, click here.)

Today, Phoenix New Times‘ Sarah Fenske, who won first place for column writing, was interviewed by the Santa Fe Reporter‘s Zane Fischer (who won the column-writing award in 2008).