Basics

Despite the influx of digital information, the foundational skills of "shoe-leather reporting", involving direct contact, investigation, and verification, remain essential for journalists in the modern newsroom.

A journalist has no right to intrude on the personal lives of others except in cases where doing so will serve the public interest. We need to be crystal clear on what we mean by public interest.

Reporting on court hearings requires an understanding of local laws and knowing what can be reported and what can‘t.

If you are a journalist working in a multilingual society, you may have to work in more than one language.

Seeking out new angles on a breaking, developing or running news story is an important part of the editorial process.

Here we look at some of the most common militaristic words that are regularly used in journalism, along with their intended meaning and possible non-militaristic alternatives.

When it comes to writing - not just news writing but any kind of writing - adjectives and adverbs have a bad reputation.

Journalists need to understand the power of using the right words when writing news stories