Miscellaneous Archive

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  

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.

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:

1. Stop using hashtags
2. Defining your online persona.
3. Tell People How They Can Help
4. Understand Your Platforms.

Get more details in an article from The International Journalists’  More  

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