Taking Your Reporting, Writing & Editing

to the
Next Level
By Chip Scanlan
The Poynter Institute
National Writers Workshop, St. Louis, Mo. April 13-14, 2002
chipscan@poynter.org

Online Handouts
How Writers Work: A Process Approach
http://www.poynter.org/research/rwe/rwe_reporting.htm
Thinking of Stories
http://www.poynter.org/pub/bnw97/bnw97int.htm
Storytelling on Deadline: Four Checklists of Questions, Tips and Exercises
http://poynter.org/centerpiece/RemJ/handoutChip2.htm
Turn the Beat Around, by Diana K. Sugg, Baltimore Sun
http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/100801.htm
Covering Routine Events
http://www.notrain-nogain.org/Listsv/rout.asp
Weblinks for Beat Reporters
http://www.arcc.mnscu.edu/~plenkema/ARCC/mediawriting/hotlist.html#chapter13
Telling Life Truths, by Jill Geisler
http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/073101/lifetruths.htm
A Lexicon of Leads, by Jack Hart
http://www.notrain-nogain.org/Train/Res/Write/lex.asp
Testing the Anecdotal Lead
http://www.cfwf.ca/farmj/fjjun00/#24
Writing Short, Writing Well
http://poynter.org/dj/083101.htm
Short writing tips
http://poynter.org/dj/090501.htm
If I Were a Carpenter: Tools for the Writer, by Roy Peter Clark
http://www.poynter.org/research/rwe/rwe_writetools.htm
Do the Writing Only You Can Do
http://www.poynter.org/research/rwe/rwe_only.htm
Writing Narrative Journalism: Ride the River, Scan the Banks 
http://poynter.org/centerpiece/121100.htm
The Paradoxes of Writing
http://poynter.org/centerpiece/121100tenpoints.htm (slow download)
Writing Sights and Sounds
http://www.notrain-nogain.org/Listsv/sight.asp
The Web and the Future of Writing
http://poynter.org/centerpiece/062100.htm
Reading to Write: A Bookbag for Writers
http://poynter.org/centerpiece/041001d.htm

For a digital version of this list, please send an email to chipscan@poynter.org