Career advice

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

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.

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 will. Even the most diligent beat reporter will open up Twitter or a competing publication and Web site and see that she has been

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

For most of my career, one of the most important questions bosses would ask about a potential job candidate was whether he or she had

Beat transitions have always been haphazard. At their best, the former beat reporter gives you her beat book (more about that later), takes you around

This was last week: Five daily posts for my Seattle Times blog; one Sunday column (800 words), including gathering data for a graphic and chart;