Archive
10 Sep

Keeping it short but powerful

This is an example of a compelling 400-word profile, followed by notes from the reporter about the process he went through to keep it so short.  The post is from […]

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21 Aug

Writing great headlines

If you are looking for exercises to help students learn to write effective headlines, you may find this site helpful. It’s an online interactive workshop for which copy editors have […]

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16 Mar

Write your headlines for an intelligent friend

A useful set of tips for writing better headlines from Sharon Burnside, the Assistant Managing Editor for the Toronto Star.

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21 Feb

Resources for teaching editing

The Knight Ohio Program for Editing and Editing Education gathers and creates resources for editing professors, students and working professionals. The site includes links, downloads and multimedia content, including an […]

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21 Feb

Short and Sweet: storytelling in 300 words

An article from Michael Weinstein, the features editor at the Charlotte Observer, about how to write short.

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21 Feb

Notable narratives archives

The Neiman Narrative Digest is building an archive of notable pieces of narrative journalism which can be searched by source, topic and format. The full text of some pieces are […]

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21 Feb

Newsroom 101: AP style & grammar exercises

This is a series of online exercises based on grammar, usage and AP style produced and updated regularly by two Americans, Ron Hartung of the Tallahassee Democrat and Gerald Grow, […]

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21 Feb

CJR’s language corner

An advice column full of great information about language rules and grammar tips from the Columbia Journalism Review. The page is updated regularly and well-organized for finding specific rules and […]

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21 Feb

What radio reporters can teach print reporters about writing

An article from Poynter Online about how one print reporter learned to write better, tighter and shorter from following the advice of radio reporters.

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20 Sep

Essays on narrative journalism

The Neiman Narrative Digest is a website established to improve and advance the practice of narrative in journalism by offering useful resources to writers, editors, teachers and students. This page […]

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