Connect with us at AEJMC
We have connected with many former journalism colleagues who also are here with us in Denver at the AEJMC conference. The sessions have been informative and interesting, and many of them have covered the very issues that inspired us to write our book, “Think Like an Editor: 50 Strategies for the Print and Digital World.” [...]
Young journalist? Stick with it
Someone asked me yesterday, “Are you glad you became a journalist?” I answered without hesitation, “Yes,” adding, “Why do you ask?” The reply: “I’m just curious.” That conversation didn’t happen with a student in the “boot camp” writing course that I’m currently teaching at the Newhouse School, nor with a colleague, nor during an interview [...]
Context essential in any story
As I was reading the latest news today about the conflict between North Korea and South Korea, I came upon a couple of paragraphs tucked in a New York Times story that added value to my understanding of the situation. The paragraphs provided: Context Background History They told me why this crisis is different from [...]
Everyone must be a safety, now
I learned, and I always have passed along, that copy editors are the gatekeepers of a news operation — the last line of defense against errors being published. And then not long ago, while I was listening to an analyst describe what just happened during an NFL game, I realized that the last line of [...]
Curiosity leads to story ideas
Every semester on the first day of class, I ask students to finish this sentence by writing on an index card: “Today, I am curious about …” Why do I do this? I’m curious myself. I like to know what the students are thinking about and what they want to know. Sometimes I read their [...]
An invitation: Participate in our blog
If you’re a professor in an editing or writing class this semester — or in any class doing journalism this spring — we’d love to have you join our blog world. There are a couple of ways you can do that: If you have a class blog, we’ll put you on our featured blog roll [...]
