From the minds
and keyboards of some of Canada's leading editors and writers are frequent
editorial tips which we invite you to download and use to develop your skills
as a journalist.
Many of these tips have appeared in other forms and are courtesy of
the authors to use in your own environments...with credit, of course.
General
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Where to find things (Kevin Scanlon)
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Books for wordophiles (compiled by Nick Russell)
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Grammar 201 (compiled by Nick Russell)
Leads
- 15 steps to writing the perfect lead (Don Gibb)
- 18 tips on lead writing (Don Gibb)
- Write your headlines for intelligent friends (Sharon Burnside)
- Ugh leads (Gregg McLachlan)
Headlines/Cutlines
- 10 cutline tips (Gregg McLachlan)
- Dos and Don'ts of Headline Writing (Geoff Stevenson)
- Guidelines to Good Cutlines (Geoff Stevenson)
Coaching
- A Daily Coaching Workout: 30 ways to improve writing without spending a fortune (Don Gibb)
- Handling the Reporter-Editor Chat (John Miller)
Reporting
- Overcoming the That's Not a Story argument (Gregg McLachlan)
- Where to get story ideas (Don Gibb)
- Real people and real stories (Don Gibb)
- Arithmophobia and journalists (Kevin Crowley)
- Math and journalists and why it matters (Don Gibb)
- Good local reporting in smaller markets (Gregg McLachlan)
- Spot news reporting tips (Gregg McLachlan)
- It must be true but check it out anyway (Gregg McLachlan)
Interviewing
- The telephone interview-how to do it well (Don Gibb)
- The art of an effective interview (Paul McLaughlin)
Writing
- Russell's Rules for Good Writing (Nick Russell)
- Improve writing without spending a lot of money: Paula LaRocque
- David Hedley's Building Blocks of Powerful News Feature Writing
- 15 tips for better writing (Don Gibb)
- Organizing your stories (Don Gibb)
- 10 bad habits in writing (Gregg McLachlan)
- Narrative writing is like the movies (Gregg McLachlan)
- Using effective quotes (Don Gibb)
Copy Editing
- Problems editors find in copy
- Looking for trouble spots in stories (Don Gibb)
- Eye of an eagle: a guide for effective copy editing (Kevin Cavanagh)
- Copy editing resources online
- Ten commandments of copy editing (Shelley Robertson)
- 15 copy editing tips (Kevin Scanlon)
- Every good copy editor's traits (Shelley Robertson)
