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The idea is as old as the day is long in journalism, really, you’ve got to think like your readers
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The speaker says that thinking about readers is a long-standing principle of journalism. A journalist should consider what the audience will understand, care about, or need from a story. “Think like your readers” means viewing the subject from the reader’s perspective rather than writing only from the writer’s own point of view.
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