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Covering gas prices and energy can be especially challenging during a presidential election year. Journalists must relay the candidates’ stances on the energy debate, and also clarify their rhetoric and fact check their statements.
In a live chat, Columbia Journalism… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Wade Roush, chief correspondent at Xconomy, and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. Xconomy, a site that covers tech trends and companies, has reporters in Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego,… Read more
More than 300 writers shared their ideas about writing at last weekend’s “Narrative Arc” conference, which Poynter co-sponsored. I delivered a keynote address and then shared a spot on four panel discussions.
My favorite was titled “Revising Before Your… Read more
Two separate incidents involving journalists who work for Gannett and ESPN have renewed attention to the issue of how journalists should exercise their right to free speech.
Earlier this week, editors and publishers at several Gannett papers said that… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Lila LaHood, director of operations and development at SF Public Press, an independent nonprofit that focuses on in-depth news. LaHood has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School… Read more
For most of four decades now, I have been talking about writing with Don and Jason Fry. Don, who directed my graduate work at Stony Brook University, has become one of the world’s most respected and well-traveled writing coaches.… Read more
“The Lifespan of a Fact” has raised important questions in recent weeks about the nature of truth in creative nonfiction and the limits of literary license.
In the book, which has been gaining widespread attention, fact-checker Jim Fingal… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked about how to decide whether it’s time to get out of journalism. This is not a simple yes-or-no question, so we addressed its complexities and what they mean. We also asked chat participants… Read more
I get this question a lot these days: What makes a story a story? Every time I think I know the answer, someone changes the question.
Can you really tell stories in newspapers? Is there a place for storytelling in… Read more
Whether you’re covering agriculture, education, business or environmental issues, there’s a global component to your beat. Journalists increasingly need to understand the big picture to cover their communities.
“The global context used to be too large and abstract to matter… Read more