Pitch perfect: how to sell more stories
John Gierach is likely the only person who can send just about anything in and have it published.
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OWAA Newspaper archives.
Paddling for a profit: How to turn one trip into multiple stories
It’s that time of year. If you haven’t already committed to attending OWAA’s annual conference, you are probably weighing the pros and expenses.
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Get graphic in your storytelling
When an assigned word count limits the amount of information you can present in an article, most of us rely upon photos, the picture’s-worth-athousand-words, space-saving solution for presenting visual details that describing might consume too many column inches.
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The art of the interview
Interviewing is an intimate method of harvesting a person’s experience, observations or expertise for a story. The kid who caught a state-record fish and the hiker who completed the Appalachian Trail in record time are initially just a few numbers and some background on a page.
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How to cover the outdoors like a crime reporter and find better stories
An Oregon police chief in my newspaper’s circulation area was arrested for illegally guiding would-be cougar and bobcat poachers, who happened to be undercover police officers.
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Finding the right word
A dim but unrelenting chorus chimes in my mind. “Where is that word I want?”
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Crafting the Q & A
But sometimes people want to hear exactly what a subject has to say in his or her own words. That’s where the question-and-answer format comes in.
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As print goes digital, journalists adapt: a newspaperman embraces video and lists
First, I have to apologize for starting off with a cliché, but I think I can justify it.
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Keep annual event coverage fresh
By Christine Peterson — We’ve all been there. It’s ice fishing season. Again…
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And putting paper on video
By Brett Prettyman — For more than two decades I’ve watched my OWAA colleagues in the television world produce amazing work…
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