For people in the press, the Pulitzer Prize is a benchmark and a direction for efforts. Only by understanding people's livelihood, investigating the truth, and writing a real press release that can affect society, can you win the Pulitzer Prize.
However, there is another way to win the Pulitzer Prize. Understand who you are writing for, know what you are good at, find things that scare them, touch them, and interest them, and then write them, and then they are telling stories. Such manuscripts can also get Pulitzer prize. Yes, the key to understanding lies in people.
Steve is such a news reporter, he works for "New Republic", a news magazine that even influences national policy. He is respectful, humble, and enthusiastic, with a friendly smile on his face every moment. He understands the preferences of every colleague, remembers their birthdays, and takes care of bringing meals for them. Everyone likes him. Believe him, he is really a likable and motivated young man.
More importantly, as a journalist, he can always find interesting news and write them in his notebook. This is the manuscript used to verify the content of the news. "Young Republicans at a conservative meeting, absurd reception, fornication", "disguised as a researcher, in-depth understanding of human cannibalism" and his last article "A hacker hacked into the database of a first-class company" , Which blackmailed the company and the hacker conference he participated in."
His news is always so interesting, can capture the attention of readers, is very entertaining but can take into account the depth of the content.
But only after the last news about hackers, he can no longer write news. Because he was discovered, he fabricated these news, these interesting, absurd, and attractive news.
Another hypothesis about winning the Pulitzer Prize does not hold.
From the 1830s, Baram wrote various fabricated press releases for the profit of his circus, and now Mi Meng writes articles that can even brainwash and influence the Three Views in order to read the volume and target the needs of women. From the appearance of news to the present, there are still people writing false events and false theories, and abandoning the truth. I remember that the teacher once asked us a question in class, "When the freshness of news conflicts with authenticity, what should we choose?" We all know the correct answer "authenticity". But in practice, why would anyone still not choose the correct answer?
Maybe it's because I want to please current readers more, maybe it's because I want to be easier and simpler, maybe there are thousands of other reasons.
I haven’t really been a journalist. I don’t know how I will become if I choose journalism, but I know that even if Steve pleases everyone, everyone will choose to watch. Not so cute, but pursuing the real Chuck.
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