About
Nine years, fourteen countries, one method: stay.
Daniel Park is an investigative correspondent who has spent nine years reporting from conflict zones, disputed elections, and the back rooms where money moves. His films and features have appeared on Meridian Wire, Harborline News, and Frontline Atlas.
He started on a regional crime beat with a borrowed camera and a habit of arriving early. The habit survived; the camera got better. Three regional broadcast-award nominations followed, along with four investigations built on forty-seven sources who agreed to be named — one of those stories ran eleven months and ended with a relocation abroad.
Tidewatch Dispatch is his field desk: the working archive of every story, the ethics he edits by, and the open line for the next commission.
Good reporting is patience with a notebook open: you wait until the room forgets you are there and the true account comes out.
01 — Arrive early
Embeds, elections, auctions: the story belongs to whoever was there before it started. Call time is a suggestion; the street sets the schedule.
02 — Stay late
After the convoy, after the presser, after everyone else packs up — that is when people talk like themselves. Three extra weeks beat three extra cameras.
03 — Cut honestly
A nervous edit tells its own untruth. Every time an edit spares the powerful, the editor has made a decision, and viewers can tell even if they cannot explain it.
