Writing With Style | Bob Baker's Newsthinking

November 21, 2005

Try creating a symbolic mathematical statement of where you want your game to go In hundreds ...

July 2, 2005

How to deprogram yourself from overquoting If there's one lesson we get taught in journalism school, ...

April 26, 2005

Plus: Exploiting contrast; The case against adjectives; Breaking down your Q/A style Here's a tribute to ...

April 1, 2005

...Here is Part II of Barry Siegel's reconstruction Several years ago I posted the first part ...

March 27, 2005

(1) Ask a question. (2) Throw the jab. Once you've digested your material, once you've distilled ...

March 9, 2005

Two examples of why the NYT is so damned interesting Today, and two days earlier, the ...

January 4, 2005

Kill enough quotes and keep your eye on story momentum and your reconstruction will sweep ...

October 24, 2004

Paul Lieberman makes the case for the first-person injection I was reading a feature in the ...

September 18, 2004

Columnists have some lessons to teach writers on the straight side Columns are a great place ...

September 8, 2004

Taking note of candidates' truth-stretching and opaqueness pushes stories toward contextual overload I'm reading a little ...