Articles #5 rule of pitching: Make it sparkle Of what we’ve unscientifically defined as the seven fatal flaws of story pitches, this one probably seems the most lame. Of course, your idea is interesting; you wouldn’t be pitching… May 28, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski How lessons from past stories can inform future stories My morning NPR ritual recently brought back two major landmarks in my journalism career this past week. May 18 was both the 41st anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.… May 26, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski “…silence so dense it became its own sound.” If you have read the novels of Dennis Lehane (among them “Gone, Baby, Gone,” “Mystic River” and “Shutter Island,” all made into movies), you know that place is a powerful… May 25, 2021 Don Nelson Embedding with EMTs to write about the first line of COVID first responders Harried doctors and nurses, gowned in eerie layers, race to the call of codes. Hospital hallways overflow with the near-dead. Undertakers scramble to make space as body after body arrives,… May 21, 2021 Chip Scanlan Writing: Nine parts mechanic, one part muse I spent the early years of my journalism career struggling with pretty much everything about the job, but especially with the writing. The reporting was often uncomfortable as I pushed… May 20, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Video essentials, solo production and — of course — camera gear EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last episode in our five-part video series, “Field Testing,” in which independent video producer Alexander Trowbridge retreats to a farm to learn the tools and… May 19, 2021 Alexander Trowbridge What a journalist mom learns from her daughter’s foray into writing the news My daughter Zara, who just turned 9, attended her first reporting interview as an infant, napping next to my chest in a snuggly baby wrap tied around my waist.Traci Angel,… May 18, 2021 Traci Angel This mobile editing challenge proves you can produce great video anywhere EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in our five-part video series, “Field Testing,” in which independent video producer Alexander Trowbridge retreats to a farm to learn the tools and skills… May 12, 2021 Alexander Trowbridge How narrative moments can elevate a non-narrative story Two foundational definitions of news are proximity and immediacy. The closer and more urgent an event or issue, the more likely it is to grab a reader’s attention. That can… May 11, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski From city hall scoops to breaking news to profiles to narratives Lizzie Johnson’s work covering the deadly wildfires that have scorched California in recent years has earned a place in these posts in the past. Most notable was an annotation of… May 6, 2021 Jacqui Banaszynski Previous 1 … 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 … 246 Next
