Newsroom ČT24 | How journalists work in Brussels

What is challenging is building a network of informal contacts. The work there is based on knowing people inside the institutions who must be willing to explain the background of things off the record, not on the microphone. They explain why something is happening, what the context is, and you need to earn the trust of these people who are not allowed to speak on the record. This takes months or even years of work.

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