A fascinating, if extremely technically informed and geeky 1986 Essay/Tallk:You and Your Research, by Richard W. Hamming, a well known former scientist at Bell Labs during its glory days. He spoke about how one could do significant scientific work, but it seems like it ought to apply fairly generally to all kind of long-term intellectual endeavors. A similarly gritty version for journalism would be fantastic. Courtesy of Kushal Chakrabarti, a student of my friend Lior.