Title: Three Steps To Get Up To Speed On Any Subject Quickly | NirandFar
Headings: Three Steps To Get Up To Speed On Any Subject Quickly
Three Steps To Get Up To Speed On Any Subject Quickly
1. GOOGLE ONCE, THEN START SKETCHING
2. GET INSIDE THE RIGHT PEOPLE’S HEADS (NOT JUST THE EXPERTS’)
3. TEACH TO KNOW

Content: Here’s how it works. 1. GOOGLE ONCE, THEN START SKETCHING
Ted Greenwald knows all about deadlines. As a news editor at the Wall Street Journal with almost 35 years of experience in journalism, Greenwald’s job depends on delivering stories on time and on point. Greenwald recalls having to get up to speed for a story on network security, a particularly gnarly topic for an outsider. “ I really could not make sense of the article,” Greenwald tells me. To make things worse, Greenwald confesses he is “a very slow reader” who doesn’t have time to consume huge piles of research or take multiple passes through material. To survive in the newsroom, he developed two routines. First, Greenwald says he always “Googles once.” Whenever he starts working on a new story, “instead of reading anything, I do some searches.