This is one of the sidebars in Ronnie Polaneczky's excellent piece on "Empathetic Interviewing." The article appears in the spring 2023 print issue of the Society of Professional Journalists' [SPJ] Quill magazine. Whether you're working in daily meet-the-deadline journalism, its…
I received this engraved tag yesterday from a former student of mine at the Shenango Valley Campus of Penn State where I began teaching a half century ago. In a letter that accompanied the tag, which I attached to the…
Beth Macy is a reporter for a newspaper in Roanoke and is working on a third book. Tips on recognizing the differences between writing a biography or non-fiction narrative and even long-form newswriting and marketing what you have written from…