I led three workshops Thursday for the staff of the Penny Hoarder in St. Petersburg, Fla.
First I led a workshop on coming up with original story ideas. I used many of the tips in my blog post on story ideas. Here are the slides:
My next workshop dealt with interviews. I used some of the tips in these posts:
Interviewing advice from veteran journalists
When it’s good (and bad) to be ‘stupid’ in interviews
Tips for persuading reluctant news sources to talk
Eric Nalder’s advice on interviewing reluctant sources
‘Uh-huh’: Does it ruin audio or keep a source talking (maybe both)
Here are my slides for the interviewing workshop:
I didn’t have any slides for the third workshop, on using data to find and support stories, but I showed the data available at these sites (thanks to Tom Meagher and Maryjo Webster for steering me to some of them):
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research
The workshop used some of the tips in my post on mining the data on your beat.
[…] Chemotherapy curtailed all of my travel in 2015, except for Tom’s wedding and some Louisiana day trips. But I was free to travel extensively in 2016, free from chemo for part of the year and later taking chemo that didn’t make me as vulnerable to infections as my 2015 drugs. So I traveled. I was a keynote speaker at the Future of Student Media Summit at Ohio University in April and an ethics fellow at the 62nd Journalism Ethics Institute at Washington and Lee University in November. I spoke on panels or simply attended journalism conferences in New Orleans, Gainesville, Fla., Oklahoma City, Philadelphia and Minneapolis, in addition to ONA. I returned to TCU, my alma mater, in a faculty exchange with Steve Myers, who spoke at LSU. I flew to St. Petersburg, Fla., to lead a day of workshops for The Penny Hoarder. […]
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