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“If we’re going to put new reporters in different regions, strategically where should they be? What will they be covering? What matters to these communities?”
“Mobility is a crucial factor in our identity. I believe that sort of fundamental optimism of American identity is running out of gas…That fundamentally shifts our national character.”
“The splash is really the best of our editorial voice…In thinking about who we are, this is the best reflection of it from a product perspective.”
Reporters and editors from prominent news organizations waded through the challenges (new and old) of reporting in the current political climate during a Harvard University event on Tuesday night.
Top journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and the Nieman Foundation discuss the path forward for reporting in the Trump era.
“I am an absolute stickler in all of our coverage for precision in language because, as you say, words are loaded. They have political meanings, they have cultural meanings, and they have identities that go beyond simple words.”
It’s part of the Times’ ongoing efforts to reach international readers — and an interesting experiment on how our political system looks from the outside.