Committing reporter days is the decision you make all day, and you make it on the shape of a story you cannot yet see. WorldbyFlow gives you the shape first: a documented timeline, the cast with leverage stated, a structured read on the event, so the assignment starts from the record rather than a hunch.
Written for Runs a desk and allocates reporting time.·Runs in the General domain
Running a desk is allocation under uncertainty. The scans here reduce the uncertainty before the allocation: a dated chronology to see how long a story really is, a cast list to see who has to be reached, a structured event read to see what is already known, a map of who is responding as a story breaks, and attributed quotes to see who has already spoken.
A dated, sourced timeline with contested points marked. The length and shape of a story before anyone is assigned to it.
Who holds what leverage in the story, from documented positions. The list of people a reporter will need to reach.
A structured read on an event: what is established, who it lands on, what is open. What the desk already knows before the first call.
Who is responding to a breaking situation and how, mapped as it unfolds. The read for the first hour.
What the principals have already said on the record, attributed. Who has spoken and who has not.
The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.
The dated spine tells you how long the story is and where the contested points are. That is the assignment decision.
Who holds leverage and what they have said. The list the reporter would build in the first two days.
Who is responding and how, in the first hour. The desk's picture while the reporters are still on the way.
Share the reads as pages the reporter opens before the first call, with sources to verify.
Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.
Share the reads as pages the assigned reporter opens before the first call, or copy them as Markdown into the assignment note.
Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →
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