Miscellaneous Archive
Tip Of The Week: Improving Journalists’ Mental Health
New FOIA Mini-Courses Available Via Text & Win A Prize!
You can learn about public records during a phone scroll. I learned of this via Muckrock.
🔎 Public Records Are Power 💪 is a free course of 7 micro-lessons, each texted once a day to your phone and taking no more than 5-10 minutes. More
How To Better Use The Internet Archive Wayback Machine In Your Next Investigation
Tip Of The Week: Keep Those Sentences Short
When writing, I tried & often didn’t work hard enough to keep sentences short. Hemingway did it well. So does Jeff Butera, author of Write Like You Talk. He spoke at the recent virtual Illinois News Broadcaster’s Virtual Convention.
One idea he preached: No more than eight to 12 words per sentence. More
Tips for Interviewing on Zoom.
This Week’s Tip: Tracking Ships.
In light of all the excitement in the Suez Canal this past week, here is a handy tool to track ships. It is called Vessel Finder Right now it’s set on the infamous ship. But you can use this tool for a variety of duties including shipping news. More
RTDNA Guide To Verbal De-escalation
Sunshine Week Is A Reminder IBA Has FOIA Help
Our Tip of The Week is that IBANewsroom has info on FOIA including how to write a FOIA letter.