> You don't just get to cover the Secretary of State's trade visit to Southeast Asia after graduating high school and working for the local paper, do you? Hmm,

> You don't just get to cover the Secretary of State's trade visit to Southeast Asia after graduating high school and working for the local paper, do you? Hmm, there's an idea... A recurring meme is local stringers and journalists resenting high-profile journalists who "parachute" in for an event, and spin something shallow and misleading that misses the real story, the context, all nuance, and a clue. A high-school student say visiting family in Southeast Asia, with a local paper affiliation for press credentials, and with very different constraints and incentives than US national journalists, might actually do some exceptionally nice work. Admittedly, when US national journalism struggles to even mention say the role of pharma's insistence on imposing US regulatory-captured industrial policy on China in kicking off the trade war, it's not a very high bar. What's missing however, is socio-technical infrastructure to reward that student. And all the local or domain-expert journalists who might also contribute better content. The contrast in quality between say "popular tech press" arstechnica journalism by Eric Berger on rockets, and the front page of NYT convering the same stories is... not a happy thing. Hmm... now what community might be able to focus on creating such infrastructure...?