Files under General | Nov
6th
More journalism caviar.
Read this story posted on The New Yorker Web site on election day, written by its editor, David Remnick.
When you read short pieces like this you realize how important it is to leave the newsroom and do the leg-work of reporting in the streets.
And how important it is for a newsroom to have editors that lead by example, reporting on deadline, doing — yes, baby — Journalism 101.
(Picture by Peter Slevin, Washington Post, outside Bill Ayers’s home in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Nov. 4, 2008.)