
ML122: Steve O'Hear on How To Ask Great Questions and the State of Global Tech
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How to Source a Story From an Online Channel
How quickly can you get from initial point of contact to actually getting the story? I wish I could just tweet so I could say someone like, there's trouble that startup X seems plausible to me. But it's not a lot of articles I'm followed by a lot of other journalists. You've got to find more subtle ways of doing it. The best way sometimes to source the story is to start with the most narrow version possible. And nine times out of ten, you'll then get a bunch of other sources who will help you move on and substantiate all.
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