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Good reporting is good reporting, regardless of the newness or oldness of the medium.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Unfortunately because of the variety of outlets for people to speak their minds on the Internet and that kind of thing, it's made the media in general more opinionated and there's more of a 'gotcha mentality' than real reporting.