Friday, March 14, 2025
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Become a Patron!If you’re an editing nut, a reporting nut, a journalism nut, you’re in luck. Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute, has been in the journalism racket for four decades with tours at the Miami Herald and being on the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Poynter has been a pioneer in media criticism, media training, fact checking, and such a valuable resource to journalists looking to continually sharpen the saw.
In this conversation, Neil riffs on
- Editing as thinking
- The late writing coach Don Murray
- How the front end is everything
- Respecting reader detection
- And Interviewing as a skill, among lots more great stuff.
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