Conventional wisdom is that journalists only care about making the front page and beating the competition, and frankly that's often true. But in the March issue of CJR, J-School prof LynNell Hancock tells the fascinating story of how NYC education reporters struggled to figure out what to do with value-added teacher data that they had requested / were being fed by the Bloomberg administration. Hancock describes the reluctance and suspicion with which NYC reporters regarded the value-added data they knew that their editors and many readers would want to see it. "Some were so angry at what looked like a blatant attempt by the city to use reporters in its fight with the
