Reporting, Writing & Editing
Resource File

• Covering the Attack: Index by Topic
  Poynter faculty and others,
  Reports began on September 11, 2001.
  
  How to Thrive in the Suburbs
  Michael Cabanatuan, David Chen, John Raess, Kim Vo
  September 10, 2001.
  
  Newsroom Newsletters
  Christopher ScanlanRegular Poynter.org Feature
  Began September 2001, (Includes Archive).
  
  
• Lessons from the National Writers Workshop
  (Orange County National Writers Workshop)
  Ellen Sung, August 24, 2001.
  
  Small Stories, Universal Truths
  Ellen Sung, July 31, 2001.
  
  Community Journalism: Dedicated to a Small Place
  John Hatcher, July 25, 2001.
  
  
• What I Learned from Writing "Pretty as a Picture"
  Roy Peter Clark, July 12, 2001.
  
  
• Long Stories Are Killing Newspapers
  Clark Hoyt, July 6, 2001.
  (This includes a response from Roy Peter Clark
  
  
• Poynter Report, Fall 2001 issue
  Aly Colon, editor, posted June 2001.
  

• Poynter Report, Fall 2000 issue
  Aly Colon, editor, posted June 2001.
  
  
• Monday's McVeigh Execution:
  What Will Distinguish Your Coverage?
  Poynter faculty, June 8, 2001.
  
  
• Visible News, Invisible Stories
  John Sweeney, June 4, 2001.
  
  
• What Really Provokes Reader Response
  Karen Brown Dunlap interviews Jack Hart, April 25, 2001.
  
  
• Teaching Economics to the Masses
  Molly Sinclair McCartney, April 18, 2001.
  
  
• Avoid Cliches Like the Plague
  Christopher Scanlan, April 10, 2001.
  
  
• A Cheap Cure for Writer's Block:
  A Pool Report from the National Writer's Workshop
  Christopher Scanlan, April 10, 2001.
  Writing With Numbers
  Christopher Scanlan, April 3, 2001.
  
  
• Hello Sweetheart, Get Me My Urban Jungle Pack!
  Christopher Scanlan, March 21, 2001.
  
  
• Bioterrorism and Media Understanding
  Roy Peter Clark, March 12, 2001.
  
  
• Tips for E-Mail Interviews
  Chip Scanlan, March 9, 2001.
  
  
• Her Picture in My Wallet:
  An Experiment in Writing Voice
  Roy Peter Clark, February 2, 2001.
  
  
• Covering the India Earthquake:
  Reporting Tips on South Asia
  Sreenath Sreenivasan, January 30, 2001
  
  
• Holiday Bonus: 50 Stories You Can Do
  Al Tompkins, December 22, 2000.
  
  
• Beating the Holiday Cliche Blues
  Tran Ha, December 22, 2000.
  
  
• Words: Misused and Abused
  John E. McIntyre, December 12, 2000.
  
  
• Narrative Journalism: Ride the River, Scan the Banks
  Chip Scanlan, December 11, 2000.
  
  
• Below the Belt with Dr. Ink
  Rochelle Lewis Lavin, December 4, 2000.
  
  
• Online Editors: Many Hats
  Mark DeCotis, November 27, 2000.
  
  
• Writing News Online
  Jonathan Dube, November 20, 2000.
  
  
• IRE Boss Says Don't Forget Daily
  Mike Wendland, November 15, 2000.
  
  
• Remarkable Journalism: An Online Resource
  Cole Campbell, October 27, 2000.
  
  
• Storytelling on Deadline: Four checklists
  Chip Scanlan, October 27, 2000.
  
  
• Storytelling the News: A Bookbag for Writers and Editors
  Chip Scanlan, October 27, 2000.
  
  
• Best Newspaper Writing 2000
  Suzanne Kreiter interview, October 18, 2000.
  
  
• Best Newspaper Writing 2000
  Mitchell Zuckoff interview, October 16, 2000.
  
  
• Worrying About Home
  Nikola Djuric, October 5, 2000.
  
  
• On the Back Porch with Jim Chapman
  Tran Ha, October 2, 2000.
  
  
• Coaching Writers
  Karen Brown Dunlap and Foster Davis, September 19, 2000.
  
  
• How to Make Your Writing Stronger
  Thomas Oliver, September 6, 2000.
  
  
• Clearer, Stronger Writing
  Al Tompkins, August 31, 2000.
  
  
• Rules to Interview By
  Leslie Rubinkowski, August 4, 2000.
  
  
• Plagiarism in the Information Age
  Chip Scanlan, July 28, 2000.
  
  
• Plagiarism: The Unoriginal Sin
  Roy Peter Clark, July 28, 2000.
  
  
• Profiting by Covering Nonprofit Organizations
  Tran Ha, July 19, 2000.
  
  
• Examples of Great Editors
  Karen Brown Dunlap and Foster Davis, July 12, 2000.
  
  
• If I Were a Carpenter: The Tools of a Writer
  Roy Peter Clark, June 27, 2000.
  
  
• Stuck for a Headline?
  John Schandler, June 23, 2000.
  
  
• The Web and the Future of Writing
  Chip Scanlan, June 21, 2000.
  
  

• Zoning in on Zines
  Jim Romenesko, June 7, 2000.
  
  

• How to Write a Good Story in 800 Words or Less
  Roy Peter Clark, May 22, 2000.
  
  

• The Ingredients for an Excellent Editor
  Joe Grimm, May 17, 2000.
  
  

• Passing a Torch to the New Pulitzer Winners
  Tran Ha, April 12, 2000.
  
  

• The Serious Business of Judging the Pulitzers
  Karen Brown Dunlap, April 10, 2000.
  
  

• An Editor and Writer at Work
  Donald M. Murray, March 27, 2000.
  
  

• Eye to I: Writing the Personal Essay
  Chip Scanlan, March 1, 2000.
  
  
• Writing Online Rocks
  Chip Scanlan, Feb. 28, 2000.
  
  
• A Dream of Warmer Weather & Writing
  Nicole A. Bonham, Feb. 23, 2000.
  
  

• A Virtual Classroom, Virtually Every Day
  Tran Ha, Feb. 16, 2000.
  
  

• Finding a Niche for Investigative Journalism
  Tran Ha, Feb. 10, 2000.
  
  
• Writing the Newspaper Novel
  Roy Peter Clark, Jan. 24, 2000.
  
  
• Wil Haygood:
  Journalism is a Calling; A Writer's Journey
  Tran Ha, Jan. 14, 2000.

• Wall-to-Wall Coverage: Four Poynter
  Faculty Critique the Growing Trend
  Bob Steele, Jill Geisler, Lillian Dunlap,
  and Al Tompkins, August 1999.

• Coverage of the Kennedy Crash:
  The Crisis of Celebrity Journalism
  A Conversation between Roy Peter Clark
  and Bob Steele, August 1999.

• A Message about Reporting Methods:
  Make No Mistake
  Bob Steele, August 1999.
  
  
• The Language of Race
  Keith Woods, July 1999.

• Guidelines for Interviewing Juveniles
  Al Tompkins, May 17, 1999.

• Guidelines for Interviewing Confidential Sources
  Al Tompkins and Bob Steele, May 1999.
  
  
• Tipsheet: Ways of Reading Copy
  for Writers and Editors
  Roy Peter Clark, June 1999.

• Tipsheet: Coaching Writers to Coach Editors
  Karen Brown Dunlap, June 1999.

• Writers at Work:
  The Process Approach to Newswriting
  Chip Scanlan, June 1999.
  
  
• Musing on the Millennium
  Aly Colón, February 1999.

• The Writing Coach in the Broadcast Newsroom
  Jill Geisler, December 1998.

• What Are You Missing?
  Karen Brown Dunlap, Oct. 19, 1998.

• Sadie's Ring, a serial narrative
  Roy Peter Clark, September 1998.

• Three Little Words, a serial narrative
  Roy Peter Clark, September 1998.

• Two Ways to Read, Three Ways to Write
  Roy Peter Clark, Workbench: The Bulletin of
  the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 4 - Winter 1998.

• How Do You Learn to Tell Stories in Journalism
  Roy Peter Clark,Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 4 - Winter 1998.

• What I Need From My Editors
  Donald M. Murray, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 4 - Winter 1998.

• Follow Your Curiosity to Find Better Stories
  Valerie Hyman, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 4 - Winter 1998.

• Computer-Assisted Reporting Challenges
  Traditional Newsgathering Safeguards
  Bob Steele and Wendell Cochran, Oct. 19, 1998.

• On the Road to Civil Rights: A Family's Journey
  Keith Woods, April 4, 1997.

• Enriching Your News Stories
  Valerie Hyman, April 1997.

• Do The Writing Only You Can Do
  Chip Scanlan, August 1996.

• The Bummer Beat:
  Bob Steele and Christopher Scanlan, May 1996.

• Getting More Diversity in Content
  Valerie Hyman, March 1996.

• Personal Responsibility for Copy Editors:
  The Secret to Success in Your Life and Your Career
  Anne Glover, January 1996.

• Eye to I: Writing the Personal Essay
  Christopher Scanlan, National Writers' Workshop,
  St. Petersburg, FL, April 23, 1995.

• Real Writers Don't Burn Out:
  Making a Writing Apprenticeship Last a Lifetime.
  Donald M. Murray, Keynote Address,
  National Writers' Workshop, Hartford, Conn., April 1, 1995.

• Editors and Reporters: Can't We All Just Get Along?
  Karen F. Dunlap, February 1995.

• Writing and the Meaning of Life
  Tad Bartimus, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 1, 1994, pp. 8-11.

• If I Were a Carpenter: The Tools of the Writer
  Roy Peter Clark, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 1, 1994, p. 2.

• Applying Lessons on Deadline
  Erin Hoover, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 1, 1994, p. 4.

• Writing About Place:
  The Boundaries of a Story
  Jeff Klinkenberg, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 1, 1994, p. 3.

• Storytelling on Deadline
  Chip Scanlan, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 1, 1994, p. 5.

• What Newspaper Writers Can Learn From TV
  Valerie Hyman, Workbench:
  The Bulletin of the National Writers' Workshop,
  Vol. 1, 1994, pp. 6-7.