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Jennifer 8. Lee's
man-date story from 2005 is a good example of a "conceptual scoop." Washington Post managing editor
Phil Bennett defines that kind of scoop: "It takes facts that are lying in plain sight and synthesizes them, or arranges them in a way -- sometimes in a narrative -- that really exposes some new meaning on an important subject. And I think that's a conceptual scoop."
