How do you decide what to cover?

This is just part of a larger question from reader crossco88 that I’d like to show in its entirety (edited for brevity) because I think the answer is important. Here goes:

“Where do you get your information from? How do you decide which info to share with your readers? Like the Bank of Australia and Bank of England rates decision. What made you say that this information is relevant to share with your readers?”

This is a great series of questions to ask of any information source.

Let’s get into it!

> Sources of information:  The vast majority of my stories are based on official disclosures from the PSE’s listed companies, which anyone can view on EDGE, the PSE’s disclosure server. After that, my second biggest news source is from the Philippines-based news outfits, like Philstar, Inquirer, Rappler, ABS-CBN, Manilla Bulletin, and BusinessWorld (among others). Then I pull potential stories from the meta-coverage of those sources, like blogs (Bilyonaryo).

In this tier are nuggets that I pick up from participating in the PH-Fintwit space on Twitter, from moderating the PHInvest subreddit on Reddit, and from browsing the forums on Facebook and Investagrams. I pull calendar info directly from EDGE (PSE-related stuff) and the Philippine Statistics Authority (inflation and GDP). American dates come from this handy Market Watch page.

The central bank announcements come from cbrates.com.

> Decision-making process:  Several factors go into deciding what to write about. Primarily I care about whether something is interesting to me, and it’s important to know that what I care about is derivative of my background and my long-term investing style. Layered on top of that is whether or not I think it will be interesting to readers (this is a feeling that I’ve had to develop the hard way over the past five years), and whether or not I’m willing to invest the time required to read and research all the materials necessary to be able to speak about the issue in my own words.