News writing and columns are vulnerable to plagiarism if you are not careful (March 7, 2007)
Plagiarism can
sneak up on you if you drop your guard when sourcing from published
material. Boston Globe sports reporter Ron Borges learned the hard way.
Read more.
How to write follow-up articles for a news outlet - 3-step guide (February 6, 2007)
One of the best ways to make your mark as a journalist, apart from knowing how to write, is to produce timely articles. Read more. How to write articles for your local paper - 4 things you must know (February 4, 2007)
If you want to write for a newspaper as a freelancer, there are some rules you should know about. Read more. The Inverted Pyramid is a hollow system for writing articles (January 30, 2007)
The Inverted
Pyramid system for news writing that is taught in colleges and
universities is a weak model to use as a reference. It is also alien to
what is being used in the majority of newsrooms around the world.Read more. Horror writing - exaggeration can be disastrous (January 24, 2007)
Is "horror"
your favourite sports team losing heavily in an important game or is
"horror" seeing your house and possessions being washed away by killer
floods? Read more. Subordinate clauses - treat them as second-class citizens in your articles (January 18, 2007)
Using a
subordinate clause to start your article is a good way of losing your
readers quickly. Unfortunately, many journalism rookies, when they
learn to write, are rarely taught this basic rule. Read more. Writing error - the general consensus being that an opening gambit is superfluously redundant (January 13, 2007)
Writers should
cringe when they read or listen to one of their own coming up with
phrases such as "opening gambit". This is an example of redundant, or
superfluous words that are too common an occurrence in modern writing.Read more. Vijay Singh or Lee Chong Wei? - they're all the same to sports journalists (January 9, 2007)
You have a
choice between an all-expense paid trip to Fiji on business class to
interview golfer Vijay Singh only days after he set a US PGA Tour
record OR cover the early rounds of the Malaysian Open badminton
tournament. What would any normal person do? Read more. Harlem Knight - you wanna be a hero? (January 5, 2007)
What is it they
say about journalists launching heroes into orbit and then shooting
them down? Well, here's a prime candidate. Hail Wesley Autrey, the man
who saved a 19-year-old from the train tracks of the 137th Street/City
College station in New York. Read more.
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