Journalist’s Trade

Lower your standards. Get something down. Swallow the bile that rises in your throat when you write a first draft. Print out early. Read aloud. Apply very critical standards.

‘Your character gets to the point where something changes.’

‘Your training as journalists is a tremendous platform on which to layer or from which to develop a personal voice.’

During the conference, there would come a time each day when writers would share their narrative writings with participants who wanted to listen. And many did. The hundreds of chairs…

Roughly the first 20 years of my working life I spent almost entirely as a reporter for newspapers and magazines. The last six or seven years of it I have…

In terms of the narrative style, as a reporter and as a writer, your job is to immerse yourself in this world and then immerse your reader in it through…

In 1992, journalists and the Pentagon agreed on nine principles to govern coverage.

‘…fire services personnel don’t go fighting fires without proper training….’

‘By accepting language’s failure, we surrender our understanding and the complex meaning of events to silence….’

‘[O]nline graphics add other dimensions to the stories we report….’