Projects

"What I cannot create, I do not understand." — Richard Feynman

• Beat Memos
• Breaking News Stories
• Profile Stories
• Solutions Stories
• Public Records Requests
• Investigative Inquiries
• Narrative Nonfiction Stories
• Op-Eds
• Critical Reviews
• Audio Stories
• Television News Packages
• Photo Essays
• Interactive Scrollytelling Stories
• Data-Driven News Stories

Draft your own beat memos

• Anatomy of a Beat Memo: Sourcing and Prioritizing Beats (Chip Scanlan & Richard Kipling / Poynter Institute)

Report your own breaking news stories

• Handling Breaking News: Newsroom Workflow and Execution (Media Helping Media)
• The Inverted Pyramid: Structuring News for Maximum Impact (Media Helping Media)

Write your own profile stories

• Putting Personality on Paper: A Guide to Writing Profiles (The New York Times Learning Network)
• Interviewing for Career-Spanning Profiles (The Open Notebook)

Report your own solutions stories

• The Basic Toolkit: A Guide to Evidence-Based Solutions Reporting (Solutions Journalism Network)

File your own public records requests

• Open Government Guide: Compendium of State Open Records and Meetings Laws (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
• FOIA Letter Generator (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)

Conduct your own investigative inquiries

• Guide: Introduction to Investigative Journalism (Brant Houston, Emilia Díaz-Struck, et al. / GIJN & iMEdD)
• Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists (Mark Lee Hunter et al. / UNESCO)

Write your own narrative nonfiction stories

• Reporting and Writing Scenes: The Foundational Building Blocks of Stories (Lauren Kessler / Nieman Storyboard)
• Sticking a Story Together — and Nailing the Structure (Line Vaaben / Nieman Storyboard)
• The Art of the Narrative Interview: Finding the Story's Arc (Kim Cross / Nieman Storyboard)
• Dart Center Style Guide for Trauma-Informed Journalism (Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma / Columbia Journalism School)

Write your own op-eds

• How to Write an Op-Ed or Column (Jeffrey L. Seglin / Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy)
• Op-Ed Writing: The Basics (The OpEd Project)

Write your own critical reviews

• Peter Bradshaw on How to Write a Review (Peter Bradshaw / The Guardian)

Produce your own audio stories

• Understanding Story Structure in 4 Drawings (Alison MacAdam & Robert Smith / NPR Training)
• Starting Your Podcast: A Guide for Students (NPR)

Construct your own television news packages

• Constructing a TV News Package (Media Helping Media)

Create your own photo essays

• How to Tell Under-Reported Stories with Photography (Pulitzer Center)
• Where We Are: A Photo Essay Guide for Exploring Community (The New York Times Learning Network)

Build your own interactive scrollytelling stories

• How to Implement Scrollytelling with Six Different Libraries (Russell Samora / The Pudding)

Build your own data-driven news stories

• Step-By-Step Guide for Journalists on the Basics of Google Sheets (Andrew Lehren / GIJN)
• Analyzing Data – Spreadsheets (GIJN Resource Center)
• The Data Journalism Handbook (Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, & Lucy Chambers, eds. / European Journalism Centre)