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Writing about the economy has to involve numbers, but it doesn’t have to be deadly dull. While the numbers are the story, a good economic journalist uses real-life examples to make those numbers come alive.
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2010 survey by Pew Research Center on Americans’ understanding of religious tenets, practices, history and legal dynamics.
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Semester-long syllabus that teaches students how to write stories with characters, show development and follow a structural arc.
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Syllabus for semester-long course on the fundamentals of covering and writing the news, including how identify a story, gather information efficiently and place it in a meaningful context.
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In 1997 the Committee of Concerned Journalists began a national conversation to identify the principles that underlie journalism.
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Short guide to acronyms, including capitalization, use of periods, articles and more
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The basics of Associated Press style from Boston University’s College of Communications.
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If The Associated Press Stylebook was created specifically for journalists, the target audience of The Chicago Manual of Style is much broader — all writing and writers.
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PoynterOnline’s Chip Scanlan on the history of the classic structure for hard-news stories.
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A lead (also known as a lede) is the first paragraph or several paragraphs of a story, be it a blog entry or a long article. Its mission is to catch readers’ attention and draw them in.
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