The other day I bumped into the father of a former newspaper intern.
The intern had been a keeper. She was smart, had the beginnings of the killer instinct that makes great reporters, and even though she was a high school student, was already a passable writer.
She represented the future of newspapering in America and she […]
It’s summer and odds are you now have or will get a journalism intern in your newsroom.
It’s a wonderful thing.
You get an enthusiastic staffer at low cost. Ironically, given the quality of the interns I’ve employed and worked with they’re likely to be better reporters and writers than the ones you have full-time.
You’re also educating […]
Time is your enemy. Don’t make it everyone else’s enemy
As an editor, you’ll never have enough of it and the time pressure can be daunting at times, especially a half-hour before press time.
As I’ve mentioned, don’t hesitate to spend some of your publisher’s money if something helps you to cut corners on beating the clock.
Because […]
In my last post, I discussed the power of “don’t mess with my TV” and how it might affect the Digital TV revolution of 2008 — and like the French revolutionaries of more than 200 years ago, the present-day revolutionaries may find themselves being guillotined by even more radical revolutionaries.
But the power of “don’t mess […]
A few years back, I always ran a feature offered by Associated Press. I don’t remember the name of it but each week, some reading expert would adapt an AP story into a short story geared to kids. The story would generally be about something popular with kids such as dinosaur discoveries, planets or snakes […]
