The article is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a story about depositions from individuals involved with the cryptocurrency DOGE. The reporter, Joseph, explains he watched hours of testimony, primarily during long flights, and took detailed notes on notable moments. These timestamps were then used by a social media manager to create video clips that gained significant online traction.
The main topics covered are the process of news production, reporting on cryptocurrency (specifically DOGE), and the use of video content from legal depositions.
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss traveling for reporting and watching way too much DOGE bros.
JOSEPH: I just wanted to write some brief notes about the DOGE depositions and the piece I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves. Much of the reason I managed to watch all of this testimony was because I was on a couple of long flights this week. On the first flight, I saw the Justin Fox deposition on YouTube. I started watching it and recording the timestamps of interesting parts, and passed those over to our social manager Evy who then cut them into videos which have since been shared pretty widely.