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.
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.
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.
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.
Steve,
I greatly appreciate the invitation and have started to invite others. A commitment to training is even more vital in our turbulent times. Your commitment shows that it can come from the highest levels. Thank you again! -- Joe
hi, steve--thanks! i don't do quite as much training as i used to. i'm now the books editor, but i still edit narrative projects and major profiles. i ended my newsletter because i just didn't have time. but so far things are going pretty well, despite the turmoil, and i thank you for inviting me to this forum. it looks quite cool.
Hey, Steve. I reckon I'll see Gerst on Election Night. He's usually troubleshooting on heavy news days. I see from the comments below that this site is your doing. Thanks.
Knowledge certainly is power, Steve. I thank you for finding a cool way to round up and distribute knowledge that will help us help one another at such a white-knuckle time in this business.
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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,
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.
I'm glad this site got started.
Be talking to you.
Kevin
Thanks for creating this wonderful way for all of us to share training ideas. I'm glad to be aboard.
Once the new site launches, I'll put the word out.
I greatly appreciate the invitation and have started to invite others. A commitment to training is even more vital in our turbulent times. Your commitment shows that it can come from the highest levels. Thank you again! -- Joe
thanks for the invitation to newscoach2.
it looks like it will be a good resource for all of us.
mike
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