“It is much easier to get a story in the blogs than in the written press. One media director indicated that her strategy for placing news stories in the NY Times was to place the story initially in the NY Times environmental blog and then hope that the print version of the paper would later pick it up.”

CJR: How to place a story? via daveburdick

One of my old editors at Time told me that when he was a reporter at one of the magazine’s far-flung bureaus (apparently, news magazines used to employ lots of people to gather news) he would routinely leak stories to the New York Times guy, because his editors in New York would only consider a story worthy if it had the validation of being printed in the Times. 

(via futurejournalismproject)

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