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The International Center for Journalists is offering advice for the coming year by asking current and former ICFJ Knight Fellows their thoughts. One of those is Janine Warner, who is a fellow in Latin American and executive director of SembraMedia. Her advice:
“Don’t chase the latest trends just because everyone else does. More
Here’s a stocking stuffer of simple yet important writing tips for TV, Radio & the web.
These tips come from Poynter and the wonderful Al Tompkins
From Jack Limpert’s Blog, About Editing and Writing. He offers up a list of ways to help fellow writers. Here is an important one on the power of mutual enthusiasm.
Our Tip Of The Week will give you another tool for your proverbial newsroom toolbox.
Over 500,000 salaries of government employees, teachers and other public employees is in an updated directory from the Better Government Association.
The BGA says the updates include improved navigation. Take a look at it here & More
The tips below were excerpted from a longer story from the International Journalists Network.
Rowan Phillips presented a full article of tips for freelance investigative reporters. The article is worth a read. I excerpted these tips which can apply to reporters everywhere.
Tips for finding the story
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