One of the first things you learn in journalism classes is to put the key information in the first paragraph of a story. If you don’t include the information up front, your professor will sternly remind you not to bury the lede. And yes, that’s the proper journalistic spelling for the word lead. That’s one…
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Early in my media career, I learned that having a good proofreader or editor was extremely important. It’s a skill that some people don’t possess. I always needed one to catch my small mistakes when I wrote something down. In recent years I’ve noticed that more online news sources have done away with that position….
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Now that we can get news delivered directly to our phone we truly have greater access to the world. But as we all know, online news usually only delivers the news we want not the news we need…
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