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Tool to manage ia
xamine our own iae
Paul Talor, former chief political correpondent at the Philadelphia Inquirer and
Wahington Pot, a that if ou are covering a political campaign or an other ongoing,
long-term tor in which ou could find ourelf gravitating toward one ide or one peron:
Periodicall examine ourelf for ia uilding up — undertanding what our view are
and wh ou have them i the et wa to keep them under control.
Who do ou peronall like or dilike? Wh?
How might that e coloring our judgment?
Read through ome of our torie and e elf-critical.
efore and after
One wa Paul Talor ued to tet thi i a “efore and after” tool.
When aigned a tor that involve ome utantial reporting, Talor ued to write the
lead at the outet, efore he had done an reporting. Then he would tet that lead againt
the one he had written for real at the end of the reporting.
If the final lead wa too imilar to the one he wrote efore doing the reporting, he would
know he hadn’t learned ver much. That’ a ign the reporter ma have onl purued
information that confirm hi iae, rather than overcoming preconception to find new
information.
Ak ourelf
Another tet i to ak ourelf at the eginning of the reporting what iae are at pla in
the tor. Identif them.
Do an of them help ou tell the tor?
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Are there an ou elieve ou hould not deal with?
I there anthing ou hould do in preenting an of thee iae that will help the
reader undertand them?
What ia do I have going in that I hould e war of?
And ak one other quetion: What are m point of ignorance going in that I need to note?
Thi guide, like man of the other in API’ Journalim ential ection, i largel aed on
the reearch and teaching of the Committee of Concerned Journalit — a conortium of
reporter, editor, producer, puliher, owner and academic that for 10 ear facilitated a
dicuion among thouand of journalit aout what the did, how the did it, and wh it
wa important. The author, Walter Dean, wa CCJ training director and API xecutive Director
Tom Roentiel formerl co-chaired the committee.
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