Good scoops are things that somebody didn't want you to know. I mean, those are the ones that hit has this month been fun. But there's a specific kind of news that you have broken this month,. Do you know what i'm talking about? Dont like becoy about it. You've broken scandal news that has crazily blown people's lives and jobs up. That's a different kind yes. The main way you can get better is sort of a volume game. If there's a hundred people who might know, and you call all hundred of them, you're going to be better off than if you just called the ten who were most likely. A lot of
Ben Smith is the media columnist for The New York Times. He was the founding editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.
”I do think there's some kind of personality flaw deep in there of wanting to like, you know, find stuff out and tell people.... I'm not sure that's a totally sane or healthy personality trait, but it is definitely, for me, a personality trait…. I think that in political reporting, certainly, there's a kind of reporter who thinks that their job is basically to pull the masks off of these monsters. And I generally tend to think all these people—with some exceptions—are weird and complicated and often doing really awful things. But they aren't necessarily irredeemable or impossible to understand…. They're interesting.”
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