Category Archives: Classnotes
Here’s the point…
In the previous post, we featured an excerpt from the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC has one of the top-rated journalism programs in the country. The DTH is a … Continue reading
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As iron sharpens iron…
Before your article hits an editor’s desk, you need to have a peer review it. Most of you are very nice, kind, sweet, thoughtful people. To a certain extent, you’re going to have to do some uncomfortable reviewing. I know … Continue reading
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At a glance… news briefs…
When you think about it, a glance is quick look at something. When someone glances at an object, there’s time only to get the big picture, not the little details. So it is with news briefs. If you are covering … Continue reading
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Construction Delay…
There has been a delay in the completion of the post about news briefs. It’s so hard to get good help these days!!! And gas prices are so high!!! And the shortage of raw materials is creating problems!!! Please check … Continue reading
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Meet the Press: Part 2 – Good Question!
The quality of an interview (and thus the information gained from that interview) will be in direct proportion to the quality of thought that goes into selecting and phrasing the interview questions. You have to have a knowledge base before … Continue reading
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Meet the Press: Part 1- Interview Etiquette
People are the most important resource a writer has. Even information we get from secondary sources ultimately comes from researchers, experts, story-tellers, eyewitnesses… people. We have to manage our resources well. We have to take care of our people. To … Continue reading
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Sacrifice…
[It's not what you think, so you can stop lamenting the loss of your social time over the weekend.] Anything worth doing is going to require sacrifice of some sort, and for the purposes of journalism, we are going to … Continue reading
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The Big Three
Mass media. Getting the word out to the masses. Through different media. Pretty basic, huh? In America today three forms of media get information to the masses: Print – newspapers, magazines, journals, tabloids, etc. – Print media is information printed … Continue reading
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Let’s Review…
For the past couple of weeks we’ve done some foundation-building for journalism. First… We talked about the Communication Triangle. It takes three things to communicate: a writer, a reader and a message. A breakdown getting from any one point on … Continue reading
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