Tag: beat reporting
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Snowmageddon
“You tell people they might see snowflakes out their windows tomorrow morning and then nothing happens…but you give no forecast at all and then I-5 is a skating rink.” Ah, the weather reporting catch-22–as neatly summed up by a Seattle Times editor. Today all the editors (I sat meekly in a corner and took notes)
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Hard news, soft news–it’s all good
This job is the first one in which I’ve truly been a general assignment reporter. Before that, I always had a certain beat. At the Santa Cruz Sentinel, my first internship and my first time working in a newsroom, I was supposed to cover everything but ended up mostly writing feature stories. At the Oregon
Jill Kimball 