You're a managing editor. At 9pm, your lead reporter tells you a source for tomorrow's front-page investigation has just recanted a key on-the-record quote. Presses run in five hours. Your editor-in-chief is at dinner. Walk me through your next decisions.

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

You're a managing editor. At 9pm, your lead reporter tells you a source for tomorrow's front-page investigation has just recanted a key on-the-record quote. Presses run in five hours. Your editor-in-chief is at dinner. Walk me through your next decisions.

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