澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究生毕业典礼演讲嘉宾：韧性主题

COM: 你打算对2022届毕业生说些什么？

凯莉: I won’t tell you too much, but I will say that it will definitely be a discussion about resilience. 这个特殊的班级经历了很多，特别是通过COVID学习。

Often times, students are juggling jobs, whether it’s part-time or full-time, and that’s a lot, adding a pandemic on top of that and the uncertainty about the economy.

所以我肯定会以韧性和未来为中心。 我想很多人都对毕业后的生活感到害怕和焦虑。 我能找到工作吗？ 我能维持这个职业吗？ I’ll touch on all that.

COM: 你的大多数读者都在南加州。 有没有西海岸的方式来报道华盛顿特区？

凯莉: 绝对的。 Here in Washington, a lot of the publications are obviously centered on the Beltway right in Washington, D.C. We like to center our coverage around more than just a national audience, but one that’s interested in either California or issues of the West.

大约一年前，我们推出了一个名为“美国加州”的系列节目，该节目将探讨加州及其政策如何真正影响整个国家。 So we do the same with our coverage out of Washington, D.C.

We may write about things like student loans, which is of national interest but, guess what? A lot of the student loans are largely centered in states like California, and so that’s the story that’s interesting to our audience.

但我们也有一个独特的优势，作为一份加州报纸，我们写的是国家感兴趣的事情——环境、硅谷和技术等问题，这些都是我们的优势所在。 I love writing about not just politics but policy, and so that’s a great fit for our publication.

COM: 你的背景是调查。 作为华盛顿分社社长，这就是你现在的工作重点吗？

凯莉: I’m with people who write about policy and politics and not necessarily investigations. 我们确实有一个调查记者。 我确实有一个理念，那就是问责是许多记者日常工作的核心。

当我们看到有些人可能认为民主正在崩溃，或者民主今天面临的挑战时，我们看到了对第一修正案的更大需求，并对政府隐藏的东西发出光芒并创造一些透明度。 I think that’s investigative reporting or accountability reporting that is not just dedicated to a few people who might sit on an investigative unit.

COM: 华盛顿被党派之争所撕裂，有人说这是自内战以来我们从未见过的。 这对报道有什么影响？

凯莉: 我想说的是，这不仅会影响报道，还会影响记者。

你知道，在大量的报道中，有些人有不同的立场和利益，所以你必须非常仔细地审查这些信息。 近年来，事实核查员的需求量很大！

Secondly, what you’re seeing are attacks (on) press freedoms. You’re seeing situations like we had recently in LA where you have a police official who’s actually showing the photo of a reporter and saying that they might be under investigation for essentially doing their job.

You have fewer journalists who are willing and able to do that kind of work, so it’s a resource issue as well. 然后你必须考虑记者的安全，以及宪法第一修正案对我们的保护。 Those are some of the challenges that we face currently, and I think that we’re going to continue to face going forward, at least in the most immediate future.

COM: 你和你的团队密切关注移民问题。 这个故事的下一个主题是什么？

凯莉: I think that there’s a lot there. 在特朗普执政期间，（故事）围绕着边境、边境保护争论、留在墨西哥的寻求庇护者、将人们送回原籍国、那些经历了极端情况的人。

Going forward, it is more about migration and what’s happening in the interior of the country. You know, they’re living their lives, they’ve been here for decades, and so being able to really report on the quality and what’s happening in the lives of the families here in the United States, so it’s less so about border immigration.

COM: 你是如何将你的资源分配给政策报道和政治报道的？

凯莉: It’s an adrenaline rush, you know. 我明白了。 It’s election night. You’re not sure who’s gonna win. You’re waiting for the polls to come in. You’re at a news conference. You’re writing the news and you’re trying to get it out fast. Hey, I’m a competitor and so I want to be first, to get the scoop.

但我认为还有第二种节奏——不仅仅是每天的新闻，还有它如何影响人们，对政策的影响，以及人们如何过他们的日常生活。

I don’t want to have reporters who write just about what Biden announced around student loans, but more how does that impact people who have debt. 这会如何影响人们的未来，未来的住房，他们的信用评分。 所以你有政治，然后你有政策。

在特朗普执政期间，人们更容易把注意力集中在政治上，对吧？ 你早上醒来，有很多推特要写。 如今，拜登政府的情况有所不同。 It’s easier to have a balance because you have news that’s coming out that you have to report on – the horse race – but then you have to explain it to your audience. And that’s the sweet spot.

我对我的记者说，有三桶。 There’s a breaking news, there’s your enterprise stories, and then there’s your accountability-slash-investigative. 所以我们的政治和政策在某种程度上符合这三者之一。

COM: What’s the skill set the 次 seeks most in young reporters entering the field?

凯莉: There’s a lot that I look for but most importantly: creativity, ambition, and skill, obviously.

当我进入新闻业时，重点是印刷出版物。 我们现在看到，报纸正在消失，印刷出版物正在减少。 So you can’t look at this industry as “I’m going to work for a newspaper” but it’s “I’m going to work for a news organization.”

所以你的报道应该与平台无关。 你的独家新闻可以出现在时事通讯、播客、YouTube视频中。 我鼓励人们对你的报道地点保持开放和灵活，但也要创建这些信息流。

我有一种哲学，叫做概念证明。 我给记者12周的时间给我一个概念的证明。 If I green light it, i’ll give you up to 12 weeks to work on it. If you’re going to fail at it, I want you to fail faster, so we can learn from those and see if we can we retool this idea and make it better. We should be encouraged to take the initiative and try things to see if they work, and I think that that’s what’s necessary to help our industry grow in the future.

COM: 除了冬天，你还想念波士顿的什么？

凯莉: 海鲜! I must admit, I didn’t go to a bunch of restaurants when I was there. 我是一个贫穷的大学生。

但我记得毕业后，当我去the Top of the Hub餐厅吃晚餐时，我非常兴奋，我只记得我当时在想：“哦，我真的很喜欢这个蛤蜊杂烩和海鲜。” I don’t know if the food there was actually good or not, but it was to my 22-year-old self.