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I just banned a spammer from the site. Please let me know if you get any spam from Newscoach2. I want to leave it open, but if this becomes a recurring problem, I will close it or shut it down.
Newscoach has been pretty quiet, but I'm making another try to get some discussion going: I'm doing a workshop on writing for a blog, how it differs from more familiar (for most journalists) forms of writing. I posed some questions on my blog and ...
Passing along a request from a friend: "Next fall, I might teach a one-day class for journalism on how to work with a boss. I wrote up some materials based on personal experience. I would like to find some articles/research on the topic. didn't fi...
Well it did, at least, remind me that I'd signed up here!
Apologies to any of you who received spam messages from "Verile Snow." She has been banned. Thanks to Joe Hight for alerting me (she hadn't spammed me yet).
I know we're all worried about the future of the newspaper business. I hope you will take the time (and it will take some; this is no tweet) to read my Blueprint for the Complete Community Connection. If you want to decide whether it's worth the t...
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I just banned a spammer from the site. Please let me know if you get any spam from Newscoach2. I want to leave it open, but if this becomes a recurring problem, I will close it or shut it down.
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 6:56am —
Use praise as a training tool
Several of my staff collaborated on a series that started today, "The Year of the River." It was an occasion for praise. The journalists accomplished some important objectives we have for our newsroom, so I wrote my note to the staff focusing on these accomplishments and making some points about some of our priorities. Effective praise does more than making people feel good. It's a training tool that says, "Look at this. Here's ho… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2008 at 7:37pm —
Best sites for newsroom training help
We need to compile a listing of the best sites to provide materials, discussions and other fodder for newsroom training.
I'll get things started with a plug for No Train, No Gain, still number one when you Google "newsroom training." NTNG hasn't grown much lately, partly because I've been too busy to do my old job of content coordinator and bug people to provide materials and partly because Dolf Els, our webmaster, has been too busy to post the mater… Continue
I'll get things started with a plug for No Train, No Gain, still number one when you Google "newsroom training." NTNG hasn't grown much lately, partly because I've been too busy to do my old job of content coordinator and bug people to provide materials and partly because Dolf Els, our webmaster, has been too busy to post the mater… Continue
Posted on November 1, 2008 at 8:07pm — 2 Comments
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- At 8:05am on July 1, 2009,
Steve Buttry said…
- Thanks, David. Alas, activity has been pretty quiet on Newscoach2. Not sure if trainers are too few or too busy or whether this isn't the right tool for connecting. But most of the contributions and questions are mine and many of the questions go unanswered.
- At 8:01am on July 1, 2009,
David Merrington said…
- Dear Steve,
Many thanks for the opportunity to join Newscoach2! I am a long-experienced editor and copyeditor (and proofreader), mainly in South African academic books and journals. However, I am intensely interested in any and all forms of text publication, including online systems. I hope my background is acceptable to a journalists' network. Your network is very appealing to me, as there are many topics that intersect with the work that I do.
With my kind regards and thanks again,
- At 9:57am on November 19, 2008,
David Stoeffler said… - Steve -- anyone you would recommend specifically for training on headline writing for new copy editors?
- At 1:23am on November 6, 2008,
Rene Kaluza said… - I'd be happy to do an MPI session. I'm just starting to get out from under a 3-day narrative project that I worked on with three reporters (each with a different approach to reporting & writing) and should finish a multimedia project we've been working on since March in early Dec. I'm also teaching one section of a newswriting class at SCSU. So, I'll go looking for my disaster planning material next week.
- At 5:16pm on November 5, 2008,
David Stoeffler said…
- Thanks for inviting me to join. I look forward to the discussion.
- At 11:51am on November 5, 2008,
Mark Kramer said… - Hi Steve,
Thanks for conceiving of and assembling this site. It's fascinating and valuable because of members' strongly overlapping experiences and precisely-defined overlapping interests.
As for your q. about what I'm doing these days--I've finally time to write, and am working on a few books, one about writing narrative nonfiction. That project has been simmering for a decade but I was taken up with conference-building, etc. I'm still doing some media consulting (though newspaper budgets are . . . ), and speaking on campuses and at bookstores in connection with "Telling True Stories: a nonfiction writers' guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University," which I co-edited with Wendy Call, and which is enjoying lively sales as it's adopted by ever-more courses. I've been building a website (that is frustrating and slow work!) as part of convening an ongoing narrative nonfiction workshop for mid-career reporters/writers/editors, which will commence in a month or so out of my home in suburban Boston (anyone interested is invited to write kramernarrative@gmail.com).
And I had a great time, this past summer, writing half-a-dozen "Notes from the Dugout" columns for the Boston Globe, about my older son, Will's, final Little League season. I've a talk on 'access' for reporters, and have threaded my way to CEOs aboard corporate jets and Ministers in the Kremlin, but most challenging of my career was gaining Will's ease with my spending time with the Newton West Cubs teammates as they practiced and played. The index page for those pieces is: http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/kramer_little_league/
By the way, I see Dolf Els is working with you. Is he still at Media 21 in Capetown? I'd read his thoughtful comments on WriterL for years, and then there he was when I went to work with staff there a few years ago.
- At 12:26am on November 5, 2008,
Kevin McGrath said… - Thanks, pal. Late? It's election nite!
I'm glad this site got started.
Be talking to you.
Kevin
- At 11:32am on November 4, 2008,
warren watson said… - Thanks Friend!!!! Would like to talk to you sometime about various. What's the best number? Any particularly good time? w2
- At 11:11am on November 4, 2008,
Rosalie Stemer said… - Dear Steve:
Thanks for creating this wonderful way for all of us to share training ideas. I'm glad to be aboard.
- At 4:31pm on November 3, 2008,
Mike Reilley said… - New site's not launched yet. Soon. But we've just updated the Election and Economic Crisis resources at http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/toolbox
Once the new site launches, I'll put the word out.
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