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Award-winning New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey told student journalists they empathize with them and understand how difficult it is to report on their own schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI personally think that the journalism we do at the New York Times is in some ways easier than what students have to do because we have so much more support,\u201d said Kantor, co-author of Chasing The Truth, a guide to investigative journalism for students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These comments surprised Hunter College Journalism Professor Katina Paron. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo me, the thing which is interesting is they said several times how much harder it is to be a student journalist,\u201d said Paron, who moderated the talk at The Student Press Law Center\u2019s Instagram Live event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kantor and Twohey also talked about the value of written documents, the compassion required of investigative journalists and the difficult position student journalists find themselves <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answering questions from the student editors of The Classic, Townshend Harris High School\u2019s newspaper in Queens, the two Times journalists discussed what a journalist needs for a robust and rigorous investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editors of The Classic, Ryan Eng, Julia Maciejak and Jasmine Palma, asked pointed questions about knowing where to find sources and evidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe nature of investigative journalism is that you have to ask really hard questions that you don\u2019t know the answers to at the outset of reporting,\u201d said Kantor. \u201cBe very creative, try and always try to go to the people who were most intimately involved themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times journalists highlighted the importance of written documentation and its value in investigative journalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that people respond so powerfully to written proof,\u201d said Kantor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although her video kept cutting out and her audio kept playing at the wrong time Megan Twohey, co-author of Chasing The Truth, went into detail about the importance of documentary evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat are the consequences if they give you those records?\u201d said Twohey. \u201cWhat are the records that may be in the public domain that I can seek through a formal request? Are there any other types of records as you talk to sources?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Classic editors were also curious about how to deal with emotions of working on such deep investigations. The Times journalists stressed the importance of having a support network to make sense of their experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twohey also discussed her investigation of a suicide website and the mental health challenges of children and teens.  \u201cIt was also very emotionally taxing for us as reporters, to report into that and to really immerse ourselves in such a river of pain and suffering,\u201d said Twohey. \u201cThe more that we can be upfront about that and the more that we can help take care of each other, the better.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s more to investigative journalism than difficult emotions and the burden of proof, Kantor and Twohey explained. It\u2019s rewarding in and of itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the reasons to go into the profession is that it\u2019s a permanent license to ask any questions you want,\u201d said Kantor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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