These are the It’s All Journalism episodes and blog posts published in 2019.
As both a staff writer and a freelancer, Punteha van Terheyden has been sharing “true life” stories of real people for many years. But last summer, she had a week where incredible stories she pitched to newspapers and magazines in the UK weren’t being picked up. “They weren’t landing like they normally do,” she says….
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When you started your career being compared to Mary Tyler Moore in Minneapolis, it’s pretty much guaranteed your future will be promising and feature more than a few twists and turns. For 30 years, Jill Olmsted has taught journalism, but she started as a reporter with a longstanding love of local news. After several stops…
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Sean Gotkin remembers the last time the DC music scene was as vibrant, connected and supportive as it is now. He grew up listening to bands like Fugazi and seeing Rollins Band play at the 9:30 Club downtown. He remembers when musicians and fans alike felt the electricity in the air when the lights went…
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Reporters know well the frustration of going out to report a story, with a clear idea in mind of what’s going on, only to find their interviews don’t support their concept. The same happens in newsrooms, when leaders determine in advance what their audiences will want. A different, and perhaps better, approach, is a form…
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The Post & Courier of Charleston, South Carolina was in dire straights. Its traditional revenue streams — print advertising and circulation — were in decline and the newspaper needed to find a way to reverse that trend — and fast. The Post & Courier‘s solution, according to Executive Editor Mitch Pugh, was to take a…
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As newsrooms continue to shrink, communities are losing valuable information when civic boards meet and no one’s there to explain what happened. Documenters, an organization that started in Chicago a few years ago and has branched out to Detroit, wants to change that, by training and hiring interested and curious citizens and dispatching them to…
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