Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, Andy Newman, a metro reporter, shares what’s involved in helping a group of middle-school-age city kids produce the stories of their lives. PhotoIt sounds so simple:“We asked New York City kids to record their daily lives and send us the footage,” says the title card of a recent Times video. What had preceded that was more than a year of planning, procrastination, logistics, negotiation and kid-wrangling. “Have we ever written a story about what makes a New York City kid?”Intriguing — and terrifyingly vague.

Source: New York Times November 03, 2016 19:31 UTC