Where ‘G’ stands for ‘Go look it up’ .. not ‘Google’
Jon Talton
December 11, 2013
I hate to be an exhibitionist, but here it is: My reference stand. And I use it. Every day. In the digital age. It’s probably
I hate to be an exhibitionist, but here it is: My reference stand. And I use it. Every day. In the digital age. It’s probably
Mistakes are inevitable: a wrong number here, a typing error there. The news media are full of them. There was never a realistic hope that
After tireless months of mining through documents and compiling databases, the winners of the 2013 Barlett & Steele Awards picked up a few reporting and
Last time, I wrote about the benefits of news originating from well-directed reporters rather than from the morning meeting. It was from an editor’s perspective.
The sensational story of a sham charity operator using a stolen identity and dodging an FBI warrant led to a 2010 Tampa Bay Times’ series.
One of the reasons I never made admiral of the Cox, Hearst, Gannett, Scripps-Howard or Knight Ridder navies is that I had a peculiar notion
You often have to put up with me railing against the single-source story.But this press-release “journalism,” merely taking dictation, is one of the biggest challenges
E-mail has made the news, news stories, and newspapers dull. (Patrick B. Pexton) Pexton, a former Washington Post ombudsman,doesn’t like email interviews. “E-mail is a
You will. Even the most diligent beat reporter will open up Twitter or a competing publication and Web site and see that she has been
As I write this, I have been preparing for an interview with Gary Locke, the U.S. ambassador to China. You’ll run into these kind of
Memo: To young journalists When I was your age, I walked 20 miles through the snow just to write obituaries for a small-town newspaper. Part
“Don’t be boring.” This isn’t just a consistent theme of my posts here but what the Washington Post’s incoming owner, Jeff Bezos, told the staff.
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