Hello Inkslingers and Snapshotters!
Our jumping-off point this week is this Scholar’s condundrum: “I usually can get creative about enterprise stories. But often I have trouble following through on them. I struggle with letting myself get into long enterprise pieces. I am afraid that I will put tons of time into it, and it will [...]

Hey Chipsters! Four weeks down for some of you – and a good time to review your goals. I’ll be sending individual e-mails this week reminding you of your goals.
Two questions for our blog this week: One — please share a lead you wrote that you really liked — and tell us why you liked it. (Russel,  please do the same [...]

Hello Scholars!  This week, please share one lesson you’ve learned in connection with pitching a photo or story idea. Your lesson could involve telling us how you came up with the idea, how you researched it, how you pitched the story or photo to your editor, etc. — and it can stem from a successful or unsuccessful effort (remember, the most lasting/valuable/important lessons [...]

Hello Scholars!
Hope your weeks are off to a good start. This week’s topic: Organizing stories (hang in there Russel, I’m sending out a photo-related e-mail just for you).
 As CQ Coach Mary Ann Hogan says in her column, there are no right and wrong ways to organize stories. And you can use different approaches, depending on story type, topic, length. What follows [...]

Hello Scholars! Welcome aboard, Princella and Elida, Candace and Chloe, and Sharahn and Brian. I think with this week, everyone in our group has started — anyone not? I wish you a rockin’ start with the stories!
For our first blog discussion, I’d like you each to share one thing that you do — reporting- [...]