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How mentors can help accelerate journalism careers

Joe Grimm — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:11:32 +0000

Few successful journalists make it all on their own. Most have help from mentors and become mentors themselves.

During this week’s career chat, we’ll talk with Randall Yip, senior producer at KGO-TV in San Francisco. Yip and I are … Read more

How journalists can make the most of newsroom internships

Joe Grimm — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:38:57 +0000

The busiest internship season of the year is just beginning, and we want to prepare interns and newsrooms for some great experiences.

During today’s career chat, we talked with Joanna Hernandez, director of career services at the CUNY Graduate … Read more

How to include narrative elements in a hard news story

Mallary Jean Tenore — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:28:55 +0000

During this week’s writing chat, we talked with Boston Globe reporter Eric Moskowitz about his story that describes the experience of a young man who was carjacked by the Boston bombing suspects.

Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark praised Moskowitz earlier this … Read more

From ancient Greece to modern Boston, how stories help us survive

Roy Peter Clark — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:46:40 +0000

The events of recent days — from the bombing of the Boston marathon to the explosion of the fertilizer plant in Texas — should remind us of the power of stories. In a daily sense and over the course of … Read more

How journalists can develop mobile video skills

Joe Grimm — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:40:08 +0000

There’s a good chance you already have the equipment you need to add video to your reporting skill set. In an increasingly visual and mobile news environment, that can be a job saver.

During a live chat, experienced multimedia journalist … Read more

What journalists need to know about covering education reform

Joe Grimm — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:55:52 +0000

Scott Elliott, incoming president of the Education Writers Association, is the education reform reporter at The Indianapolis Star.

That’s a pretty unusual job title and a beat that Elliott pretty much carved out himself. During a live chat, … Read more

How to influence reader response to your work

Roy Peter Clark — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:01:59 +0000

All writers learn that it is not possible or desirable to control how a reader responds to story, or even a sentence. But you can influence reader response, and you should.

How your reader responds is a crucial consequence of … Read more

How to use social media to get your next job

Joe Grimm — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:21:42 +0000

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Randy Essex, senior editor for local news at the Cincinnati Enquirer/Cincinnati.com and Kentucky Enquirer/NKY.com.

Essex uses social networking sites to find people for jobs in his newsroom, and job opportunities have … Read more

Tips for improving your writing on National Grammar Day

Roy Peter Clark — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:07:02 +0000

Today is National Grammar Day, a special holiday for someone — namely me — who has written a book titled “The Glamour of Grammar.”

That title still puzzles some people who think of grammar as a creaky old … Read more

How to get news apps experience, build a news apps team

Joe Grimm — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:01:57 +0000

During our latest career chat, we talked with Lauren Rabaino, news applications editor for The Seattle Times. Rabaino is a digital journalist who works to improve storytelling and audience engagement with design and the development of digital news applications. … Read more