Featured How to Pitch an Investigative Story MANY A FREELANCER HAS CONDEMNED HERSELF TO AN EDITOR’S BLACKLIST FOR NOT FOLLOWING ESTABLISHED PITCH PROTOCOLS.
Advice How to Pitch an Investigative Story MANY A FREELANCER HAS CONDEMNED HERSELF TO AN EDITOR’S BLACKLIST FOR NOT FOLLOWING ESTABLISHED PITCH PROTOCOLS.
Advice The Necessity of Background Research in Reporting MANY A REPORTER MAY HAVE A TIP OR A HUNCH AND HEAD OFF FOR THE RACES WITHOUT DOING THE MOST BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL STEP REQUIRED IN REPORTING: MASTERING...
Advice A Vintage Way to Find Sources AN OLD-SCHOOL METHOD OF GETTING NUMBERS CAN STILL BE YOUR BEST TOOL FOR FINDING SOURCES
Advice How to Use All My Tweets Hate it or love it, social media platforms, perhaps none moreso than Twitter, have become a driving factor for many a news stories.
Advice How to Use CourtListener For a journalist, there are few more illuminating resources than court filings and documents.
Advice How to use LexisNexis Biographies LexisNexis is known to most journalists. But it’s often a little-understood and overlooked tool whose power rests in how well you can master its various functions.
Advice How to Obtain Gun Permit Records YOU MAY NOT REALIZE IT, BUT IT'S POSSIBLE FOR REPORTERS TO OBTAIN LISTS OF AREA GUN OWNERS―INFORMATION THAT CAN OFTEN YIELD INTERESTING INFORMATION.
Advice Tweet Dreams HOW TO HANDLE TWITTER AS A SOURCE - When reporting on trends, developing news and emerging scandals, it’s tough to beat tweets.
Advice Finding Sources SOMETIMES THE SIMPLE ACT OF FINDING A PERSON, WHETHER A WAR CRIMINAL, A WITNESS, A SPY, AN EXECUTIVE, A PRODIGY, A HERO, OR A FAMOUS JOURNALIST, IS THE...
