One of my grammatical pet peeves is the abuse of quotation marks. I see it often in my daily life, but as I’ve been editing lately, I’ve noticed it popping up more and more in the stories I coach. A lot of young reporters think that quoting just one word an official says lends […]
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the bleak future of journalism in general and of newspapers in particular.
There are two skills that I believe are now indispensable in the field. Any journalist who won’t begin to embrace them is simply not ready for the future of the business. What are they? […]
From the shameless self-promotion department, here’s a couple of nice stories we ran this weekend that I had a hand in.
For the past couple of months, I’ve been editing full-time, so I haven’t had a lot of bylines of late. But my latest project, which I put together in conjunction with our intrepid cops reporter, […]
