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Journalists are sometimes the problem in disseminating misinformation. A new article in Harvard’s Journalists’ Resource spells out tips to help you avoid being a part of the problem.
The article we link to includes three tips:
With journalists competing to be informational sources, it is important you have credibility and trust with your audience and your sources. These seven tips come from a reporter in Germany, but apply about anywhere.
A Discussion at a recent environmental journalism conference, emphasized the importance of following these tips when doing investigative work.
The original article came from the Knight Center, “Follow The Money, Carefully.
These eight tips come from a producer at 60 minutes. Hopefully the eight suggestions shared here will make your interviews stronger and more effective. Be Prepared!
When writing stories do you end up using the same word multiple times or find you have a go-to word when covering certain stories? Here’s a little on line word help that will give you 100 suggestions for a replacement word. I entered the word “proposal” into the OneLook Reverse Dictionary. More
At a recent Excellence in Journalism conference, a discussions centered about using Twitter for ethical journalism.
A few of the takeaways included:
Get more details in an article from The International Journalists’ More
Journalists’s Resource has a half-dozen tips to help cover whistleblowers. In addition to the tips, it lists additional resources worth checking. Take some time to study this to be more prepared in the future should something comes up where you need it.
I stopped by the site Tools For Reporters. I’d recommend you check that out. Our Tip Of The Week comes from there. It’s an online people searcher that checks a lot of web sites for usernames.
Hopefully it can help in your reporting work! More
Our Tip Of The Week goes once again to the solid advice of Hank Price at Newslab. Hank provides a solid list of things to do to move up rather than move along.
News Veteran Hank Price offers up five things you can do to gets training, courtesy of Newslab. I’ll throw in a sixth, the INBA fall conference at the end of this month.