Advice for news reporters

[RPB]

Interview multiple sources for your stories
March 12, 2011 by Eric Harrison
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But there are two lessons to draw from the uproar:

1) Keep yourself and your views out of news stories, and

2) Make sure your stories are balanced. Talk to people with differing and opposing viewpoints.

In reading your blogs, I see story after story that rely on only one source.

This is lazy reporting. Not only does it result in dull, shallow stories, but your stories often are written from one point of view with the writer seeming to take their source’s word as gospel.

[RPB]

I wish every article quoting John Woods and Colin Goddard also interviewed

Wayne Chiang
Ken Stanton
W. Scott "Douva" Lewis
Chase Jennings
Charles Cotton

But, I'm daydreaming ....

[Pawpaw]

I wish every article quoting John Woods and Colin Goddard also interviewed

Wayne Chiang
Ken Stanton
W. Scott "Douva" Lewis
Chase Jennings
Charles Cotton

But, I'm daydreaming ....

Yes you are, but as long as you're at it...

John Lott

[RPB]

I wish every article quoting John Woods and Colin Goddard also interviewed

Wayne Chiang
Ken Stanton
W. Scott "Douva" Lewis
Chase Jennings
Charles Cotton

But, I'm daydreaming ....

Yes you are, but as long as you're at it...

John Lott

Nah, what would a professor know?
Yep, I overlooked a good one. Thanks

[WildBill]

1) Keep yourself and your views out of news stories, and

2) Make sure your stories are balanced. Talk to people with differing and opposing viewpoints.

I was taught this in journalism class - back when I was a reporter for my junior high school newspaper.

[OldCannon]

1) Keep yourself and your views out of news stories, and

2) Make sure your stories are balanced. Talk to people with differing and opposing viewpoints.

I was taught this in journalism class - back when I was a reporter for my junior high school newspaper.

I believe you're confusing "Journalism" with what qualifies as "Reporting" (or "News") these days. On the best of days, they're merely adjacent to each other.

[WildBill]

1) Keep yourself and your views out of news stories, and

2) Make sure your stories are balanced. Talk to people with differing and opposing viewpoints.

I was taught this in journalism class - back when I was a reporter for my junior high school newspaper.

I believe you're confusing "Journalism" with what qualifies as "Reporting" (or "News") these days. On the best of days, they're merely adjacent to each other.

I guess I am really confused. I thought that they were the same thing.