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What's in a word?
Language is always changing, so it’s no surprise to find a few new words in the latest edition of Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Among this year’s additions are two media terms: vl… more →
Advancing the Story
Journalism advice on YouTube
dhwenger wrote 5 months ago: YouTube’s new Reporter’s Center is already getting lots of attention from journalism blo … more →
Writing better news stories
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dhwenger wrote 6 months ago: Tom Hallman, Jr. is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who conducts narrative writing seminars for … more →
Apostrophe love
Deborah Potter wrote 9 months ago: Its really a shame the apostrophe doesn’t get it’s fair share of love. See the glaring e … more →
Developing a writing style
Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: Is it ever okay to copy someone else’s writing style? KARE-TV reporter Boyd Huppert, one of t … more →
TV writing advice
Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: Writing is hard work, no matter what your medium. As the German novelist Thomas Mann once said, … more →
Story planning tips
Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: If you’re using the textbook, you’re already aware that planning is an essential part of the storyte … more →
Writing opens and closes
Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: For many TV reporters, the hardest things to write in any story are the opening and closing lines. … more →
A fun writing tool
Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: You know the old saying: A picture is worth a thousand words. How about a picture of a thousand wor … more →
The written word still matters
Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: Yes, it’s a multimedia world. But the most important skill any journalist brings to the job i … more →
Focusing tool
Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: Here’s yet another use for Twitter: as a tool to help focus your stories. The suggestion comes … more →
Ten tips for writing TV news
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Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: People who think writing TV news is easy have probably never done it well. What’s easy (unfort … more →
Overused and abused
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Deborah Potter wrote 1 year ago: Every year since 1975, Lake Superior State University has put out a list of words that should be ban … more →
Find a focus and lose the jargon
Deborah Potter wrote 2 years ago: KARE-TV’s Joe Fryer knows a little something about good writing. He’s won three national … more →
Editing tips from one of the best
Deborah Potter wrote 2 years ago: Digital editing allows you to do amazing things with video, but the 2007 NPPA Editor of the Year urg … more →
Speling counts, gramer and punctuation too
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Deborah Potter wrote 2 years ago: Yes, I know the headline is misspelled (and yes, there are two s’s in misspelled). Does this m … more →
The power of words
Deborah Potter wrote 2 years ago: We live in a multimedia world, surrounded by images, but words still have power. That’s what I … more →
Don't drop local sports, change it
Deborah Potter wrote 2 years ago: Market research indicates that sports is near the bottom of the list of reasons people give for watc … more →
A newspaper bucks the trend
Deborah Potter wrote 2 years ago: USA Today was mocked when it launched 25 years ago. McPaper, they called it, with its “news nu … more →
Find the action
Deborah Potter wrote 2 years ago: Reporters who want to follow the action in a story need to know where to find it. You can’t te … more →
