Uncovering stories that others want concealed is what separates journalism’s finest practitioners from their peers.
Within the trade of journalism some carve their niche through spectacularly colourful features. Others through sharp analyses, and brilliant profiles. Some are known for their penetrative interviews of key people. A few connect with readers by talking about their personal lives evocatively.
If chasing a scoop is akin to the sport of hunting – after all, the biggest news breaks often requires weeks, or months of patient pursuit as you winkle information from sources and nail down facts – Ben could be said to have had several “bags” to his name. That isn’t always so. Journalism, more often than not, is about long hours waiting for a critical phone call to be returned, that could kill, or verify, a story. Drudge work that carries into the late evening when your friends outside are partying. This is why cracking the big one is a thrill beyond description.
For more than a year after he fled a Singapore lockup in February 2007 and crossed into Malaysia, Mas Selamat had been Singapore’s most wanted man. His escape was a huge embarrassment. Now, they had him again. Another would come in July 1997, in the pages of Far Eastern Economic Review. That’s when Nate Thayer, who spent years tracking down Pol Pot, came face to face with the dying tyrant in the Indochinese jungles.
“Why not,” he told Tony with a smile. “Churchill was a fine old anti-fascist fighter after all,” he said, referring to Churchill’s wartime alliance with the then Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.But how does a scoop take shape? You could, of course, get lucky and stumble on to a news break, as Tony did.from the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October 2022, capturing on phone a moment that he would make viral around the world.
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