Journalists and drinking. Such a stereotypical combination. And a fun one to joke about. However, there are some things that you might want to keep in mind when reporting on alcohol that can add more context and relevance for your listeners, viewers and readers. Chloe Reichel has a tip-sheet “8 tips on how to cover drinking responsibly” More
Tip of the Week Archive
Something Your Weather Department Could Do Related To Climate Change
Our Tip Of The Week, is more of a thinking ahead piece.
An op/ed in USA Today says newspaper weather reports could include a daily carbon dioxide report. TV could incorporate that quite easily.
A Tool To See What Media Is Covering
Our IBA Newsroom Tip Of The Week comes from Samantha Sunne at Tools For Reporters. Be sure to sign up for its mailings.
You can use Media Cloud to search the text published by news outlets to see what they’re covering. Sunne says “There’s a LOT of claims out there about “the media covers this, More
A Reporter’s Guide To Carving Out Time To Investigate
This week’s Tip Of The Week comes from RTNDA & reporter Stephanie Bertini. See the full article here.
As a reporter for most of my career, I realized that I had to do the daily news grind feeding stories from a statehouse bureau to our member stations. More
The Dreaded Passive Voice Revisited
This was one of the most popular Tips Of The Week on our site this past year.
Thanks to Ken Keller. A good chunk of this article came from an INBA Tune In back in the 1990’s (based on the original article mentioning Governor Jim Edgar.)
With Mr. More
Too Soon? Not Soon Enough? This Week’s Tip.
I hear and see it a lot. A reporter telling me a town may soon see a new business. Citizens may soon see higher garbage rates. The state may soon be home to… you get my point. Perhaps telling your audience something may be coming soon works good enough. More
The Importance Of Being Focused
Minneapolis TV Reporter Boyd Huppert emphasized that importance of knowing the focus of your story, when speaking to the Illinois News Broadcasters Association over the weekend.
It motivated me to focus on FOCUS in future Tips of the Week.
Huppert’s working definition of focus is “Character, More
The Importance Of Having Your Story Focused
Minneapolis TV Reporter Boyd Huppert emphasized that importance of knowing the focus of your story, when speaking to the Illinois News Broadcasters Association over the weekend.
It motivated me to focus on FOCUS in future Tips of the Week.
Huppert’s working definition of focus is “Character, More
10 Brief Reporting Lessons Available On Sound Cloud
Do you wish you could make it to a conference of the Investigative Reporters & Editors? At the group’s NICAR (better known now as “data journalism”) meeting last month, experts in several areas offered up “Lightning talks” which give you good lessons ranging from stopping the feeling that you are an impostor to data tracking of 911 calls. More
Check Those Facts! Get It Right Everytime
Today (April 2) is International Fact Checking Day. Check your favorite journalism sites and you will likely see excellent suggestions for snooping our fake news and doing a better job of fact checking. I found some advice from across the pond that may be helpful, especially for reporters trying to do investigative work. More