 Christopher
'Chip' Scanlan
Reporting,
Writing & Editing Group Leader
cscanlan@poynter.org
Committed
to helping writers and editors reach the next level of excellence.
Convinced that tireless reporting, critical and creative thinking,
and re-vision are the foundations of good writing. Believes that
reporters know their stories’ problems and solutions but
need coaching editors to help them discover what they already
know. Specialties: storytelling on deadline, feature and magazine
writing, personal essay as a reporting/writing/leadership tool,
how good writing is made.
Reporter,
Providence Journal-Bulletin; feature writer, St. Petersburg
Times; national correspondent, Knight Ridder Newspapers Washington
Bureau; author of Reporting & Writing: Basics for the 21st
Century; edits Best Newspaper Writing series. B.A,
Fairfield University; M.S., Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism.
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