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The Mayborn is back! In person and online

The Mayborn is back! In person and online

A Storyboard standard was tracking and reporting on as many of the top annual journal conferences we could, from association events — like the Society of Environmental Journalists, Investigative Reporters…
July 20, 2022
Jacqui Banaszynski
Francis X. Clines: The consummate newspaper journalist

Francis X. Clines: The consummate newspaper journalist

Every afternoon when I was a kid, the Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press Gazette landed in the driveway of our house. Actually, squinting back, I think it got tucked between the…
July 19, 2022
Jacqui Banaszynski
Raise your glasses to four lessons all writers can learn by judging craft beer

Raise your glasses to four lessons all writers can learn by judging craft beer

Maybe not 99, but at least a few dozen bottles of beer are along the wall. We take one down, pass it around, make sure the barcode on the bottle…
July 15, 2022
Charles Scudder
A tribute to the consummate reporter/writer: Francis X. Clines

A tribute to the consummate reporter/writer: Francis X. Clines

EDITOR’S NOTE: This tribute is shared with permission from our friends at The Poynter Institute.Frank Clines arrived at The New York Times in 1958, one year before the death of…
July 14, 2022
Roy Peter Clark
So you want to write a book? Brace yourself for some serious self-promotion and, yes, TikTok

So you want to write a book? Brace yourself for some serious self-promotion and, yes, TikTok

First published in the wine-and-dine era, Lauren Kessler now manages a blog, Instagram account, YouTube videos and more to help market her books
July 13, 2022
Lauren Kessler
When your saved story becomes one more overstuffed space

When your saved story becomes one more overstuffed space

One of the few things I appreciate about Facebook, besides tours of my friends’ faraway lives and photos of the babies being born to my former “Baby Js”, is the…
July 12, 2022
Jacqui Banaszynski
A meteorologist attracts an audience with casual writing and controversial views

A meteorologist attracts an audience with casual writing and controversial views

 If not for the astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan, University of Washington atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass might be writing and teaching about Nor’easters, Mount Washington in New Hampshire and Boston’s…
July 8, 2022
Stuart Tomlinson
So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir

So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir

A learning-teaching journalist shares lessons learned as she revisited the realities of her mother's death and her own eating disorder
July 6, 2022
Mallary Tenore Tarpley
Struggling to explain American democracy to a visitor

Struggling to explain American democracy to a visitor

A conversation with a Sri Lankan journalist about news in the U.S. is a reminder to push past assumed narratives
July 5, 2022
Jacqui Banaszynski
A podcast focused on diversity practices what it preaches

A podcast focused on diversity practices what it preaches

When I asked Saadia Khan whether or not she identifies as a journalist, she said no. Her definition of a journalist: “someone with a degree in journalism or has worked…
July 1, 2022
Kristen Chin