{"id":115,"date":"2007-04-15T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/amy\/2007\/04\/15\/48-tips-for-better-writing-reporting\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:19:05","slug":"48-tips-for-better-writing-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2007\/04\/15\/48-tips-for-better-writing-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"48 Tips for Better Writing, Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valuable footprints from this month&#8217;s National Writers Workshop in Hartford, Connecticut have been left on this Poynteronline blog, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=99\">48 Tips in 48 Hours<\/a><\/strong>,  a collection of practical reporting and writing ideas. Even if you&#8217;re not a reporter with a beat, many of these tips are applicable to many kinds of writing and general business situations. A few of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#7: Keep it simple&#8230; (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=99\">click through to read more<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>#23: Write a killer lead&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>#21: Rewrite the lead&#8230; and the whole damn thing&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>#26: Be the expert&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>#40: Ask yourself why do my readers care about this topic now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valuable footprints from this month&#8217;s National Writers Workshop in Hartford, Connecticut have been left on this Poynteronline blog, 48 Tips in 48 Hours, a collection of practical reporting and writing ideas. Even if you&#8217;re not a reporter with a beat, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2007\/04\/15\/48-tips-for-better-writing-reporting\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">48 Tips for Better Writing, Reporting<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,127,195,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-tips","category-general","category-marketing","category-new-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}