“So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never really be completed about a world we can never really understand.” -Phil Graham, Former Owner of the Washington Post
During his tenure as among the most influential newsmen of the 20th century, Phil Graham often referred to the news as the first rough draft of history. But what about the second rough draft?
In the fast-paced 21st-century media environment, there is no intermediate step between the news we hear about in the moment and the textbooks our children study a decade later. What’s more, the first rough draft is often fleeting and intense, rarely presented with historical context or revisited later when new facts come to light.
We want to change that.
Join us here at Second Rough Draft for full context, historical perspective, and an opportunity to slow down and think.
