Colin Schultz turns out 12 posts a week for Smithsonian and that's less than half of his income, so each post is written in an hour or less. That's not enough time for telephone interviews, let alone in-person reporting. So Schultz focuses on analyzing rather than reporting the news: "There are lots of people out there trying to break news. What there are less of, and what you can actually do really well from behind a computer, is help people make sense of the news."
