Reporter 02: Reading Somebody Else's Report

by bam

A beat reporter is handed reports constantly, and most of what goes wrong happens between the executive summary and the table underneath it. Worked end to end on one real 84-page document: who published it and what they do, an anatomy, a summary sentence chased back to its table, what a data definition changes, how to resolve an endnote, and a publisher that writes down its own limits. Sits directly on top of How to Read a Number.