Business smarts
As most journalists are aware, the old newspaper business model isn’t working. Is it safe to take a job with a company that’s had cutbacks but is now rebounding?
As most journalists are aware, the old newspaper business model isn’t working. Is it safe to take a job with a company that’s had cutbacks but is now rebounding?
In today’s journalism world, is it still an added bonus to learn how to lay out a newspaper?
My experience in journalism has largely been confined to opinion writing, both at my college paper and at a previous internship. What can I do to make a successful transition from op-ed writing to news reporting?
Will writing for a politically conservative publication hurt your chances of working for a left-leaning one later, or vice-versa? Read what the coach has to say.
As a reporter, how do you get the information you need from your sources, but not cross the line of becoming too close with them?
Some readers in our conservative community don’t like it when we publish certain stories, particularly about race and sexual orientation. Is there a danger in feeding your readers stories many don’t want to see?
There’s a great reporter in my newsroom whose work I really respect. However, I haven’t developed a relationship with him. He’s fairly busy and somewhat serious, and we have barely spoken two words to one another.
My internship experience isn’t what I expected it to be. I’m working in an isolated closet-like office down the hall from everyone and I share it with a part-time reporter. It’s my third week and I haven’t produced anything original.
Before my internship, a reporter at the paper, whom I know from school, made arrangements to have her editor (and her) meet me for lunch. I got the time wrong.
I sometimes leave key information out of a story. Not essential information, or anything that would make the story inaccurate, but things that, in retrospect, would increase reader understanding.