journalism

ABC’s of Newspaper Reporting

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By Gary Blake As a freelance reporter, first for a local weekly newspaper and then a daily, I found out that I was an incorrigible procrastinator. Most news stories were written shortly after the fact to meet the paper’s deadline. It’s the nature of the beast. There were a few feature stories that I let … Read more

Anatomy of a Newspaper Feature

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By Ben Baker As a newspaper editor for longer than I really want to think about, I’ve written, read, edited, and cursed more newspaper feature articles than anyone except another newspaper editor. The cursing part comes in because most newspaper feature articles I read are one-person interviews which are almost monologues of the person being … Read more