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23 Nov

It’s not okay to suck at math

“Almost every story contains a number, be it a statistic, an address, or someone’s age,” writes Craig Silverman in a recent Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) column about journalists and math […]

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28 Oct

Nieman guide to covering pandemic flu launched

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has launched a “comprehensive online guide to covering pandemic flu.” The new website, Covering Pandemic Flu, is aimed specifically at journalists. The foundation […]

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26 Oct

Craig Silverman offers advice on avoiding errors in news writing

In the days and months leading up to the United States presidential election of 1948, all of the pollsters were reporting the same thing: Thomas E. Dewey was a shoe-in […]

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23 Aug

Annie Leibovitz’s “nightmare”

Peerless photographer Annie Leibovitz may be the latest victim of America’s bad debt crisis and nationwide recession — and also, said an Agence France-Presse story, “of her own relentless artistic […]

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28 Jul

Adventures in long-form magazine editing

Trying to imagine the best way for a story to unfold before a reader’s eyes is first and foremost in any editor’s mind when handling a lengthy manuscript, writes Bill […]

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10 Jul

Reuters Handbook of Journalism now online

The Reuters Handbook of Journalism is “the guidance Reuters journalists live by,” according to Dean Wright, global editor, ethics, innovation and news standards for the news agency. The Reuters Handbook […]

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8 Jul

Audioboo: iPhone app billed as Twitter for audio

If you’re looking to get audio online from an iPhone, TechCrunch noted recently that Audioboo is “about to become a huge blogger and journalist tool.” TechCrunch‘s Mike Butcher explained: “AudioBoo […]

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25 Jun

New project tracks reports released by government

An online project for journalists that tracks and links to government and NGO reports in Canada, which launched in April, now has more than 170 entries. Reports Canada, a blog […]

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16 Jun

From beat reporter to book author 500 words at a time

ByRod McQueen People used to tug on my drinking arm at receptions and say, “I’ve always wanted to be an author. How do you write a book?” I had a […]

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25 May

How do you keep up?

In June I gave a talk to news librarians at the Special Libraries Association Conference where the question “How do you keep up?’ was a central concern. This is a […]

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