Improve your writing by imitating the greats. [more inside]
posted by ekpyrotic on Oct 1, 2009 - 27 answers

How do I extract information from people? I'm a self-taught journalist who profiles people in my community. Interviews always go well when we discuss the interviewee's special area of knowledge, but I stall when trying to move beyond that. [more inside]
posted by Jason and Laszlo on Apr 25, 2009 - 13 answers

Looking for independent news sites and journalists' blogs [more inside]
posted by reenum on Apr 16, 2009 - 8 answers

I need resources to improve my news writing. I'm already working in a newsroom, so this isn't a"halp mee, I wants to be a writter" post. Rather, I want to increase my fluency in the basics so that tight, accurate prose always flows naturally, even under deadline. I'd also like to increase my vocabulary and craft skills as a writer so that when I'm less pressed for time, I can really make the language dance. [more inside]
posted by [ixia] on Jul 30, 2008 - 12 answers

English-speaking journalist with travel bug: where should I go? [more inside]
posted by lindsey.nicole on Jun 15, 2008 - 9 answers

Every time I hear a journalist say "Tell me about ..." when interviewing someone on television, I get really annoyed. It seems so incredibly presumptuous, pompous and impolite to demand an answer of a guest like that. Yet it happens all over the world. Is this standard journalistic practice? What's the reasoning behind it? Anyone else feel the same way or am I being a relic? [more inside]
posted by zaebiz on May 9, 2008 - 39 answers

Canadian journalist wants to work in the U.K. - does this sound remotely feasible? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Mar 21, 2008 - 1 answer

How do journalists find 'regular people' when they profile them for public interest articles? [more inside]
posted by teem on Oct 18, 2006 - 14 answers

Any journalists in the audience? I have managed to land myself a position where a journalism degree would be helpful...and yet, I don't have one! (more inside) [more inside]
posted by macadamiaranch on Dec 23, 2003 - 13 answers