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The dangers of short form content – The Woke Salaryman:

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Journalists prefer in-person interviews. Emailing questions to strangers and expecting them to write out their answers is not journalism.

An interview means a real-time give-and take, not a list of questions you email. Most people worth interviewing are too busy to write out their answers to help you meet your deadline. If you can’t meet in person, ask if your source will do a videoconference, or even (if they’re the right generation) an old-fashioned phone call. (Gasp!)

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Seeing A Wrinkle in Time. @prime_stage

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What Was the TED Talk?

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This makes a lot of sense.

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