Rebecca Tan of The Washington Post, Peter Landers of The Wall Street Journal and Daniel Moss of Bloomberg News shared business journalism advice with the National Press Foundation’s international trade reporting fellows.
A story on the NPF website states, “‘We write for a general audience and with trade and with the economy, I think everyone has a sense that things going very badly, but making sure that that’s something that people understand why it matters to them,’ Tan said. ‘What’s happening to global shipping, what’s happening to global infrastructure, what’s happening at the ports, making sure that the lay reader understands that and how it’s going to going to affect them.’
“Moss said the volatile times have begged for often elusive explanations that benefit from heaping doses of historical context.
“‘At what point does one dive in and try to be definitive, if that’s even possible in the last six months,’ Moss said, adding that daily reporting has so far provided ‘down payments on definitiveness.'”
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