This is the handout for the workshop, developing story ideas, which I presented today for staff members at Gazette Communications. We discussed how to come up with good story ideas and how to develop a plan to execute them. Every good story starts with a good idea Story ideas are literally all around you. You [...]
Archive for February 16th, 2010
Finding and developing story ideas
Posted in Journalism, Workshop handouts, tagged Investigative Reporters and Editors, story ideas on February 16, 2010 | 12 Comments »
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