A story I'm telling — you'll get it piecemeal over several months — has an interesting backstory.
7:00 am, Apr. 22, 2021
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Normally, my job is fairly straightforward.
I find a story idea. I call people or meet them in person. Questions are asked. Answers are given. The tale is told of those questions and answers.
A photographer shows up and tells the story his or her way. We mesh those two storytelling styles together, and — Bam! — journalism. Sometimes there's a video. Sometimes there's a chart or graph.
I'm oversimplifying things a bit, but this is the basic formula practiced by everyone from Walter Cronkite down to little old me.