Anatomy of a Story on TWT Sale
WaPo‘s Ian Shapira breaks down the story of the pending sale of TWT this afternoon in a Story Lab feature. What’s noteworthy: the conversation Shapira had with DCRTV’s Dave Hughes (pictured here), who explains how he came to “report” that TWT was “perilously close” to shuttering. Hughes wrote the item completely blind — as in, based on a completely unknown source who just sends him stuff blindly. Did Hughes think to check facts or call TWT? Nope.
After Hughes’s salacious item published, a TWT editorial staffer remarked to FishbowlDC: “The site looks like it was put together by a f–king third grader.
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