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Origin of Daily Surveyor Items
The Daily Surveyor has retained much of the original concept that it is the analysts' publication, and therefore items are originated for the most part by individual analysts. No programming is involved although in the early days, items were most frequently written by the divisional surveyor representative rather than the responsible division analyst. Items are occasionally suggested by the divisional surveyor representative, by Division supervisory personnel, by the Office of the Director or the [redacted] but the prime responsibility for initiation of an item remains with the analyst.
Format, Classification, Sources
The Daily Surveyor is an all-source publication.
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Surveyor items are generally based on a single source with the analyst comment following thereon. As the Daily Surveyor has matured, the items have lengthened from the early days of three- to four-sentence comments
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