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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.
This Tip Of The Week is a bit of a longer read, but is a good one to both read now and save for referral. It is a substantive guide from Five Thirty Eight “How To Read 2020 Polls Like A Five Thirty Eighter. It provides some great guidelines to keep in mind when sifting through poll numbers. More
This week’s tip of the week provides some great suggestions for accessories in mobile journalism gear. It comes from the National Association of Black Journalists’ conference via the International Journalists’ Network.
This wonderful set of links comes from Rana F. Sweis. This set of links covers journalism basics, jobs and all sorts of helpful sites. It is the best collection I’ve seen. Take some time to bookmark the ones that will help you!