Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whereas correspondents of nearly all other publications report directly to the readers, TIME'S correspondents report to the editors. Andre Laguerre, head of TIME'S Paris Bureau, tells how this works...
Some TIME correspondents have long backgrounds of residence in the areas they cover; most have not. These, however, are expected to become thoroughly immersed in the scene on which they report. TIME'S editors usually, but not invariably, accept a correspondent's guidance. Correspondents sometimes overemphasize the importance of their own scene in the national picture or the world picture. It is up to the editors to set the perspective right, as the editors...
TIME'S way of handling news should always produce a sense-making report. Occasionally, it achieves something more-a story that readers remember and quote and write about to TIME. After 15 years, many old TIME readers remember its story on the death and funeral of Calvin Coolidge. Written by John Shaw Billings (then National Affairs editor, now editorial director), the story told simply and very clearly how the news of his death came to the Senate, the House, President Hoover, and to Mrs. Aurora Pierce, "longtime Coolidge housekeeper" at Plymouth, Vt. She "heard a tap on the homestead...
...outermost circle is the Associated Press report, other news services, the newspapers, and TIME'S correspondents. On Thursday, TIME'S New York office has story suggestions from the bureaus. Editors there send correspondents detailed queries. On Thursday and Friday the correspondents are busy getting answers to these queries. Meanwhile, in New York a writer and a researcher are assigned to each story...
...facts" about the simplest news event-say, an automobile accident-would (if anybody were fool enough to collect them) fill a library: the metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection...