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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 3173076, member: 961"] If you're interested in what used to be the art of covering sports and news and other things for newspapers, coinsider this article in the Atlantic and consider reading the book it reviews. [URL="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/sports-writing-on-deadline/586015/"]The Lost Art of Deadline Writing[/URL] I was never a sports writer but was a reporter for more than a decade in the 70s and 80s when deadline writing was an essential skill. We were taught that you not only had to get the story and to get it right, but to get it in on deadline. The best story in the world was worthless if it didn't make the paper. I have not read the book being reviewed here, but I am dead certain they got the process right. Sports writing, political writing, town council writing, makes no difference. The process was the same, and those who did it really, really well -- including some mentioned in this book -- were truly artists. [/QUOTE]