Eric Lipton
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759 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5 Aug
Eric Lipton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's just the fact of the matter at this point.
And one of the things whenever I start one of these stories is I build a chronology.
I mean, it's just like you're working on a term paper in college or high school.
I build a really detailed chronology of the sequence of events, and I have as many primary sources with links to the original documents in that chronology.
That becomes my guidepost to the players and the individual actions and the sequence of events.
Once you have that chronology, you can see the interplay between what's happening in the government and what's happening in the private sector, who the individuals are, and the chronology to some extent becomes the story.
Because as those different events are happening and they're intertwined, it's like almost that narrative emerges from the chronology.
So for each one of these investigations that I'm doing, I have a master, very detailed, day-by-day chronology of the events, the players, the companies, the public sector actions, the private sector actions.
And in the process of working on the story, I'm basically memorizing that chronology.
And I also use the fact check because every single fact has to be so carefully fact checked because if I make any mistake, believe me, they will pound me, you know, and they will try to undermine the substance of the story based on a small factual error.
But if I have that date through a document that's linked to my chronology, then I know that it's accurate.
And so those chronologies are really important for me in each one of these investigations.
Right.
They're not.
I don't keep them in a spreadsheet because they're like unpredictable formats and lengths each entry.
So I just basically – everything has a link to a primary – I don't link to secondary sources.
I link to primary government documents or SEC filings.
our business, you know, announcements.
And it's like, I love my chronologies because it's like, it is the spine of the story is right there.
And I wait until the story emerges and it helps me pick my characters and it helped me pick my dramatic moments.
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