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b'Maria Streshinsky is the executive editor at Wired.\\n\\n\\u201cSometimes a story comes in and it\\u2019s really lovely and well done. And you think if you just got on the phone with this person and pointed out the structure is wrong here and the chronology is wrong here, ask them to change that and send them what is known at Wired as the \\u2018praise sandwich letter\\u2019: how wonderful something is, how much work it will need, how wonderful it will be. \\u2026 It\\u2019s not the kiss of death, it\\u2019s \\u2018we have a lot of work to do.\\u2019 \\u2026 There are lots of pieces that come in that you\\u2019ve assigned because it\\u2019s the person with the right information with the right access, and they\\u2019re a good reporter, but maybe not a terrific wordsmith. So, you do more rewriting. Then there\\u2019s the other person that\\u2019s a really lovely, lovely writer that doesn\\u2019t have the structure and the reporting so you push on that. It\\u2019s sort of a three or four-pronged thing\\u2014it depends on the piece. I will say, somewhat controversially, there aren\\u2019t that many pieces that come in pretty clean.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Skagen, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@mstreshinsky\\n\\n\\nStreshinsky\'s archive at Wired\\n\\n\\n[5:40] Streshinsky\'s archive at Mother Jones\\n\\n\\n[7:45] Streshinsky\'s archive at The Atlantic\\n\\n\\n[8:45] "Women Aren\'t Welcome Here" (Amanda Hess \\u2022 Pacific Standard \\u2022 Jan 2014)\\n\\n\\n[12:00] "How One Woman\'s Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her" (Brooke Jarvis \\u2022 Wired \\u2022 Nov 2017)\\n\\n\\n[23:05] "Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook\\u2014and the World" (Nick Thompson & Dave Vogelstein \\u2022 Wired \\u2022 Feb 2018)\\n\\n\\n[25:15] "Saving Lives with Tech Amid Syria\'s Endless Civil War" (Danny Gold \\u2022 Wired \\u2022 Aug 2018)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'