The Good & Ugly of Cover Stories

There’s a certain art to interviewing and writing for cover stories – much of it comes from humanizing the subject. These stories are effortless to read, and you walk away feeling like you know the subject even better. But bad cover stories are missing much of the nuance. 

This week fans and journalists were calling out a particularly bad cover story that profiled Tomorrow x Together for GQ Hype. We discuss where this story went wrong and compare past profiles on TXT as well as Lana Del Rey’s recent Rolling Stone UK as evidence of good journalism. We consider how the publication’s audience and the experience of the journalist play into the approach and quality of the interview – and whether or not journalists should be fans to some degree.

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