Journalists interviewing journalists
NPR's newsmagazine shows, Morning Edition and All Things Considered, offer a genre of news story known as the reporter two-way. This is a conversation between an NPR host and a reporter, exploring a specific event or topic. Sometimes the reporter works for NPR. Sometimes the reporter works for another news outlet.
A reporter two-way involves one journalist talking to another journalist, but there are other two-way conversations on NPR: Hosts also interview experts and sources directly involved in a story.
Today we respond to a listener who wants to hear less of journalists talking to other journalists and more from the people closest to the news events of the day. This bit of media criticism brushes against the pressures of producing daily broadcast news. It's often simpler to talk to another reporter than it is to send a journalist into the field to gather sound and produce a story. And reporters can make complex information or jargon more understandable.
