Tip of the Week Archive
Tips For Dealing With Imposter Syndrome In Journalism
What To Know If You’d Like To Become A Foreign Correspondent
Our Tip Of The Week via.. International Journalists’ Network offers five tips if you’d like to do international work.
New FOIA Mini-Courses Available Via Text & Win A Prize!
You can learn about public records during a phone scroll. I learned of this via Muckrock.
🔎 Public Records Are Power 💪 is a free course of 7 micro-lessons, each texted once a day to your phone and taking no more than 5-10 minutes. More
How To Better Use The Internet Archive Wayback Machine In Your Next Investigation
Shave Time & Money Off Of Your FOIA Request
The good people at Muckrock say being specific will help in your request. With our Tip Of The Week, here are suggestions on how to do that.
Tip Of The Week: Keep Those Sentences Short
When writing, I tried & often didn’t work hard enough to keep sentences short. Hemingway did it well. So does Jeff Butera, author of Write Like You Talk. He spoke at the recent virtual Illinois News Broadcaster’s Virtual Convention.
One idea he preached: No more than eight to 12 words per sentence. More
Tips for Interviewing on Zoom.
Five Tips For Local Media Covering COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
Our Tip of the Week is international in scope, but gives you a good brief picture of things you can do to improve your coverage.