A former colleague of mine and all around great guy, Josh Katzowitz, wrote a great piece on the pressure/euphoria of deadline writing. Every beat reporter has at least one hair-raising story of trying to meet a deadline under some form of duress. For me as a cub sports reporter it involved covering a game in one county and racing back to the sports desk in another county to get in two stories and a sidebar worth of stats. Somehow, someway we still made it to press.
Anyways, a good read for those interested in seeing how a story comes together.
http://joshkatzowitz.com/2010/02/08/the-anatomy-of-a-deadline-story/
