Roundups

While in the middle of hiring a new member of my marketing team, a few weeks back, I sensed an unknown judgement sneak into my evaluation process. I would immediately scan the page, with each resume, looking for some kind of media background. A sign that the individual competing for this position had knowledge of media and literary masterminds from years past, knew how to explore the streets looking for clues and sources, and had experience in the newsroom.

Around the same time every morning I leave my house and walk to my office that is just over a mile away. I pass park police putting up hammocks in parklets that cut back the Atlantic Avenue’s center. I walk past a row of media trucks, just before I reach Thomson Place in Boston’s neighborhood of Fort Point, that were covering high-profile cases.

On the side of the road, global news teams from CBS, FOX and CNN sit, going through their notes, before addressing their audiences by standing in front of their cameras. As the news anchor is about to go on, I sometimes make an eye contact with him. I ask myself, What’s he going to say? After that, he straightens his back, snaps his eyes and delivers his story to the audiences with authority and poise.