From 2004: Trust and responsibility

This is another Training Tracks blog post from the archive of No Train, No Gain, originally published June 21, 2004: An intern asked a couple questions that wouldn’t even occur to a veteran in our newsroom: She was covering an event about three or four hours away and wondered if it would be OK to [...]

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From 2004: How do you learn from disasters?

This is another Training Tracks blog post from the archive of No Train, No Gain, originally published Aug. 23, 2004: After Charley swept through Florida, a colleague there wrote asking if I had a workshop on covering a hurricane. Working in Omaha now and having spent my career in the Midwest, I responded that I [...]

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From 2004: Don’t limit training to your strengths

This is another Training Tracks blog post from the archive of No Train, No Gain, originally published Sept. 6, 2004: I started out in training by playing to my strengths. I had spent most of my career as an assigning editor, a department head, top editor and reporter. So my early workshops taught reporting, writing [...]

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From 2004: Trainer, teach thyself

This is another Training Tracks blog post from the archive of No Train, No Gain, originally published Oct. 25, 2004: My initial reaction when an editor asked me to adapt my “Becoming a Storyteller” workshop to stress stories under 12 inches was cynicism. I thought (and still think) that newspapers risk shooting themselves into the [...]

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