Holding a writing instrument might have come slightly before holding a guitar, and is admittedly slightly easier, but Dave Bidini has been combining writing and music most of his life….
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The conversations around branded versus editorial content have continued to evolve since 2014, when we first talked to Melanie Deziel, the founder of StoryFuel. In that time, so much has…
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More than a decade into her career, with most of that time spent at the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, Erica Mandy noticed she was hearing a very common refrain…
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I recently received the following letter from Aðalheiður Ámundadóttir, a journalist in Iceland. “Hi there, and thanks so much for your awesome podcast! “I‘ve been searching your archives for an…
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Three years ago, Amy Webb told the Online News Association’s annual conference that it was possible to take video footage of a person speaking and create a very believable and…
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In the course of researching stories, reporters will often ask their sources directly for documents needed to explain a situation. This is pretty common practice. When Aura Bogado was talking…
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Spread across Montana are seven Native American reservations and the state-recognized Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. And for four months each year, a team of students from the University…
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Like a lot of people, I struggle with anxiety. Deadlines are particularly stressful, which is crazy because I’m in an industry in which the deadline is sacrosanct. Your editor gives you a…
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The American public’s distrust of the media is not new. Neither is it surprising, says Kyle Pope, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journalism Review. But how bad is it?…
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Texas has one of the nation’s leading state laws to protect reporters and others from being sued for trying to obtain or share public information. Anti-SLAPP statutes, where SLAPP stands…
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