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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This week the Illinois Auditor General released a high profile audit examining the State’s response to the Legionnaire’s disease outbreaks at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy. There are many other audits released throughout the year and most can provide you with interesting information and stories that affect taxpayers across Illinois. More