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The top skill of every media maker
Read more: The top skill of every media makerAfter 25 years, Ari Shapiro, the long-time NPR reporter and host of All Things Considered Over 25 years, retired in September 2025. I like to read the memoirs of journalists because 1). you pick up good lessons and tips for how to be a journalist. This is really valuable if you (me) strive to work…
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How do you write for the radio?
Read more: How do you write for the radio?Great piece on NPR’s All Things Considered on Nov 1, 2025 about writing for the radio. Former newspaper writers reflect on the difference between writing for text-based publications compared writing for the radio.
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Is your post sharable?
Read more: Is your post sharable?This is excellent advice I came across on a LinkedIn post from the wonderfully smart Rachel Karten. Her newsletter/website Link in the Bio partnered with Hootiesuite, a social media management software company to give some social media advice. If you’re in the thunder dome of social media (media), and you want to have an impact,…
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Producer Notes: Data center concerns, sustainable death, and making art out of decay
Read more: Producer Notes: Data center concerns, sustainable death, and making art out of decaySince June, I’ve been a producer for the Monday Eight O’Clock Buzz with long-running host Brian Standing at WORT 89.9 FM. Recently, and with the graces of the news director, I tried something new. As an experiment, I wrote a text-based version of the radio with further context, news story links, and links to the…
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Being unemployed makes you hungry for answers.
Read more: Being unemployed makes you hungry for answers.I feel like I spend a lot of time on the internet looking for an answer. Where is the next job?
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Here are 96 Tips on creativity from an advertising veteran
Read more: Here are 96 Tips on creativity from an advertising veteranAdvertising legend David Fowler (of Motel 6 “Leave the light on” fame) offers 96 tips for surviving the advertising industry. But really, it will help any creative survive any creative industry.
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Journalists should find that Pablo Torre energy
Read more: Journalists should find that Pablo Torre energyWhat I love about Pablo Torre is how he makes journalism engaging and interesting
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$1.6B data center proposed in Menomonie draws strong response from concerned citizens
Read more: $1.6B data center proposed in Menomonie draws strong response from concerned citizensFrom WPR by Rich Kremer An unnamed tech company is proposing a $1.6 billion data center in the western Wisconsin city of Menomonie — and concerned citizens are raising the alarm. The city council has annexed and rezoned around 320 acres of farmland, but some of those who voted yes say they don’t necessarily support…
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The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
Read more: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects
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The Last Untamed Writer in America
Read more: The Last Untamed Writer in AmericaThe writer William T. Vollmann is many things: a 2005 National Book winner, fiction writer, a journalist, a prolific producer of over 20 books; a war zone observer (he once almost died from a land mine).
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