Most newsrooms also have reporters suffering from the same problem, but without any visible signs.
They turn in deeply reported, well-organized stories on time, but they agonize needlessly. To mix my metaphors, the reporter then drowns in the deckfull. Some papers team the ace digger with a master writer, or with a patient rewriting editor. Some newsrooms turn the problematic investigator into an editor, which causes worse problems. Coaching the drowning The helpful editor can deal with these problems by coaching or teaching.