Tips for reporting and telling stories with traditional and new tools, including “Writing Tools” by Roy Peter Clark.
The latest issue of Runner’s World, now on newsstands, is dedicated almost exclusively to the Boston Marathon bombings and their aftermath.
“We all knew pretty quickly that we would do something like this, even on race day, even though we … Read more
I just finished reading The Great Gatsby for the sixth time. Divided into my age, that makes about once per decade. Like so many other teens, I was introduced to Gatsby in high school – just about the time the … Read more
The recent discovery that the U.S. Department of Justice has seized Associated Press and Fox News phone records has seriously shaken the news industry.
It remains unclear whether the DOJ went through all the proper channels to get that … Read more
How did The Guardian find a focus for its new multimedia piece, Firestorm?
The project began with inspiration: a striking photograph of a woman and her grandchildren taking shelter from a raging fire in the water under a jetty. … Read more
KARE 11 television in Minneapolis has built a reputation for telling compelling visual stories. Reporter Boyd Huppert and the station’s national-award-winning photojournalists have set fire to a house to show the usefulness of new stovetop extinguishers, and he has … Read more
Driving to work Tuesday, I heard a four-minute NPR report on the massive tornado destruction in Oklahoma. So vivid was the account — and so visual the writing — that I pulled over to write down the name of … Read more
In 42 years of Oklahoma City weathercasting, KWTV’s Gary England estimates he has tracked more than 1,000 tornadoes, and without a doubt, that estimate is “on the low end.” When he started his TV career in 1972, he wrote on … Read more
Last Saturday I had the honor of teaching at a public writing conference at The Washington Post. After I finished my part of the program, I spent the day listening carefully to four of the Post’s most accomplished writers and … Read more
At the end of this essay, I will be asking for your help in writing a proposal for a new book: “What Writers See: In Life, Language, and Literature.”
What do I mean when I ask the question “What do … Read more
Transparency, transparency, transparency. Say it loud and there’s music playing. Say it soft and it’s almost like praying.
Transparency is the new pillar of responsible practice, inside and outside of journalism — including at Poynter. When it comes to reporting … Read more