{"id":102,"date":"2006-12-03T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2006-12-03T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T21:56:00","slug":"what-makes-reporters-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/what-makes-reporters-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes reporters tick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pullquote\">Some readers are convinced that certain reporters at the <em>New York Times<\/em> are motivated solely by partisan politics &#8230; reporters and editors &#8230; are not motivated by a devotion to any political party or cause.<\/span><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he public editor of the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span>,<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/03\/opinion\/03pubed.html?hp\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Byron Calame<\/span><\/a>, has been figuring out what makes reporters tick. With nearly forty years in the business, Byron is either a dinosaur or a seer. You can make up your own mind. Here&#8217;s his seven habits of highly effective newspaper reporters: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1) Being first with new facts or fresh insights.<br \/>2) Pursuing stories that can have impact.<br \/>3) Winning prizes.<br \/>4) Impressing sources.<br \/>5) Figuring out what\u2019s really happening.<br \/>6) Telling stories in a compelling way.<br \/>7) Getting on the front page.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm. There&#8217;s a formula in there somewhere: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">quantification<\/span> plus <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">stating the obvious<\/span> divided by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">your own personal opinion<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">some of your mates<\/span>. Multiply it by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">a misplaced sense of the seriousness of your conclusions<\/span> and, yes Byron, you are a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">dino-seer<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some readers are convinced that certain reporters at the New York Times are motivated solely by partisan politics &#8230; reporters and editors &#8230; are not motivated by a devotion to any political party or cause.The public editor of the New York Times,Byron Calame, has been figuring out what makes reporters tick. With nearly forty years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50,81],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-media","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}