Know Your News: How do news outlets decide what to over?

By: Paul Cuno-Booth

Outlets: Granite State News Collaborative

Published: September 28, 2025

Words: 800

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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Should we chase down this tip? Is this meeting worth covering? How can we shed new light on this issue?

Editors and reporters face those kinds of questions every day. So how do they decide what to cover — and how to cover it?

“A question I often get asked is, ‘What is the one thing that you wish everybody knew about the newspaper, but they don't?’” said Julie Hirshan Hart, editor of the Laconia …

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