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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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