The best reporters and pundits know that the real traction isn’t the commodified tidbit of breaking news — this person was traded, this person threw a key interception, this person said something provocative — but the entirely valuable (and hard-to-copy) piece of insight that helps us understand a story better.
Dan Shanoff on short-form site Quickish, which offers near-instant analysis and news on sports, in an interview with Nieman Journalism Lab's Justin Ellis.














