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Focusing tool
Here’s yet another use for Twitter: as a tool to help focus your stories. The suggestion comes from former Washington Post editor Craig Stoltz, who says the discipline of writing substantive Tw… more »
Advancing the Story
Focusing tool
Deborah Potter wrote 1 month ago: Here’s yet another use for Twitter: as a tool to help focus your stories. The suggestion come … more »
Ten tips for writing TV news
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Deborah Potter wrote 2 months ago: People who think writing TV news is easy have probably never done it well. What’s easy (unfor … more »
Overused and abused
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Deborah Potter wrote 6 months ago: Every year since 1975, Lake Superior State University has put out a list of words that should be ban … more »
Find a focus and lose the jargon
Deborah Potter wrote 8 months ago: KARE-TV’s Joe Fryer knows a little something about good writing. He’s won three nationa … more »
Editing tips from one of the best
Deborah Potter wrote 8 months ago: Digital editing allows you to do amazing things with video, but the 2007 NPPA Editor of the Year urg … more »
Speling counts, gramer and punctuation too
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Deborah Potter wrote 8 months ago: Yes, I know the headline is misspelled (and yes, there are two s’s in misspelled). Does this … more »
The power of words
Deborah Potter wrote 8 months ago: We live in a multimedia world, surrounded by images, but words still have power. That’s what I … more »
Don't drop local sports, change it
Deborah Potter wrote 9 months ago: Market research indicates that sports is near the bottom of the list of reasons people give for watc … more »
A newspaper bucks the trend
Deborah Potter wrote 9 months ago: USA Today was mocked when it launched 25 years ago. McPaper, they called it, with its “news n … more »
Find the action
Deborah Potter wrote 11 months ago: Reporters who want to follow the action in a story need to know where to find it. You can’t t … more »
