Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Highlight

I had only ever worked in print—only ever thought about working in print—and didn't understand the ways in which creating a visual and audio-enabled story requires different approaches to craft. I could use anonymous intelligence sources in print and could not do that on TV (for this piece, at least). I had to be attentive to subtleties of expression and soundtrack that could cue a viewer to entertain a perspective without ever making that perspective explicit, and that potential for unfairness was pointed out to me by the production team. As a novice, I was completely ignorant of how to create an investigative TV news piece that cleared the bar for publication. When CBS veterans talk about how little the inexperienced Weiss knows about what goes into a responsible 60 Minutes piece, I flash back to my time on this Hour from 2004.