Organizing | Bob Baker's Newsthinking

August 25, 2007

Breaking down an NYT cop-shooting story I liked the following story by Al Baker, a New ...

January 21, 2002

Playing off the news: a graf-by-graf breakdown of local-angle journalism One of the most common assignments ...

November 19, 2001

Breaking down five versions of the news media's uncounted-ballot study Your mission is to write a ...

October 22, 2001

In which we demand: Does each cluster of paragraphs perform a unique and vital function? Once ...

July 23, 2001

Or, for the socially minded: Keeping that blind date interested through dinner Every story is your ...

May 28, 2001

How to get more out of those moments between the last scrawl in your notebook ...

April 30, 2001

Finding ways to take the reader deeper by the halfway point Admit it, you're lead-obsessed. We ...

April 30, 2001

Slow down and ask yourself: Just what does the reader bring to my story? What's wrong ...