Craig Brown is The Columbian’s editor. His column will appear in this space periodically. Contact him at 360-735-4514 or [email protected] Although you wouldn’t know it by the weather, we are in the middle of the summer news season. I feel like a meteorologist this time of year, because you can forecast summer news by the […]
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Newsroom terminology can often be confusing for those outside the industry or unfamiliar with the inner workings of a newspaper. In an effort to focus on media literacy at Iowa State, I’ve compiled some of the most commonly misinterpreted terms during my time at the Daily. Letter to the editor: A letter to the editor
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Taking your own photos and videos, how to get those assets to the press and when to hire a pro First, a caveat, if you can bring a professional photographer, do it! If you are good at taking photos and videos, skip to the parts about how to submit them or what makes for a
Journalists are renowned for sniffing out a good story; they instinctively know how to get to the crux of a matter, asking the right sort of questions to get to the truth, and can decipher complicated subject matters succinctly for everyone to understand. Pick up any newspaper or magazine and you’ll find it packed with
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The following is a guest post from Chelsey Heath, the news SEO strategist for Trisolute Software’s News Dashboard. Guest posts do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. In the world of the Google search engine results pages, or SERPs, there’s a new gold standard: Google’s accelerated mobile articles.
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Kansas City Star reporters are being given new assignments as part of parent company McClatchy Inc.’s “reinvention” of newsrooms across the newspaper chain. The health beat has been transformed into the “bad medicine” beat, the education beat into “raising Kansas City” and the crime beat into “courts uncovered,” to cite three examples. Reporters will also
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