Miscellaneous Archive

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  

“Crisis? What Crisis?”  was the name of a Supertramp album back in the 70’s.   Now that I’ve shown my age, lets talk about how everything seems to be a crisis.

Perhaps it’s time to give the word a vacation or at least reduce its use.

While the uses of the word “crisis” most often fits one of the dictionary definitions of the word,  More  

It can be helpful at times for both investigations and disasters to track down the owners of aircraft.   The folks at the Global Investigative Journalism Network have a tremendous tip sheet to assist you in doing this.   They’ve released a list of sites and contacts that can help you.  More  

Here’s this year’s severe weather guide from the state.  Includes a directory of the NOAA weather radio stations.

We can all work to improve our news writing. As our friend Ken Keller noted several years ago, we can also work on our rewriting.   The suggestions below are excerpted from a column Ken used to write in INBA Tune IN.  Thanks Ken!

We do a lot of quick writing in this deadline crunch business of broadcast news,  More  

And our Tip Of The Week

Whether you are a reporter or manager, you probably feel at times like your newsroom is rudderless and lacking a clear sense of direction.   It happens almost everywhere.  Goal setting and the  related discussions often help in these instances.    Maybe you would like to get the news staff on the same page.   More