So You Want To Be A Journalist

Summary

Somewhere right now, a reporter is knocking on a door no one wants to open. Somewhere else, another is reading the 400th page of a court document, looking for the one sentence that doesn't add up. This is what journalism actually looks like. Not the bright lights and the breaking-news graphics — but the slow, stubborn work of finding out what is true and telling everyone else before anyone else does. Journalists ask the questions powerful people would rather no one asked. They write the stori...