I saw someone expressing very understandable frustration this morning about not seeing any headlines about a Trump admin EO (executive order) that was posted late last night, and I think this is maybe a good way to explain in real time how an EO becomes A News here. I’m not going to get into […] - ThreadSky

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy • 12 days ago

I saw someone expressing very understandable frustration this morning about not seeing any headlines about a Trump admin EO (executive order) that was posted late last night, and I think this is maybe a good way to explain in real time how an EO becomes A News here.

I’m not going to get into […]

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kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•12 days ago

Beforehand: I’m not a working journalist, but I’ve done various kinds of journalism, worked with newsrooms, and—maybe most relevantly—been a person reporters email and text late at night and early in the morning to ask for analysis and explanations.

What I learned doing those things changed my […]

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•12 days ago

If you're a reporter/reporting team in a newsroom working this story, you need to find people with the right expertise to explain and contextualize it and break down the likely effects.

Those people are not inside the newsroom, they're in your phone contacts or someone else's phone contacts or […]

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•12 days ago

Or you go fast and shallow, aggregate a couple of people posting their hot takes on Twitter/X, add some context at the top, and run with that—which is much faster than having actual conversations.

That's what Politico did here, in the first writeup of this EO I've personally come across […]

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•12 days ago

Another fast response is what the NYT does here, which is to throw the EO onto their big tracker (ty to the Times reporter who posted a gift link) to get it onto the board, and link directly to the EO itself […] https://mas.to/@kissane/114038097247863672

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•12 days ago

The wire services are different than other newsrooms because they sometimes just slinging basic info, so I went looking and yep, we have Reuters at 2am rolling up yesterday's EO-based carnage and calling this one out […]

kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy•12 days ago

What I would expect to see in the next day or two is the national US outlets and some big regional papers doing coverage that either reports out the effects and contexts for this EO by itself or wraps it into ongoing coverage of the whole set of "dismantling the administrative state" actions […]

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