The Quill, December 1st, 2007
Regardless of medium, journalists must be excellent storytellers
One of the benefits of this column is the chance to engage in a conversation of sorts with journalists. Last mondi, an e-mail showed up asking "do you have any advice for a recent journalism grad?"
Everything I was told when I graduated from college in 1977 is terribly outdated. My instructions, when hired by a weekly newspaper, and later when I moved to a small daily, sound quaint: Learn the AP stylebook, and make sure the local TV doesn't get something before we do.
Never once did I hear the word story - in the way I eventua...
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