I’m going to try to compile the best insights into the craft that I’ve heard in the J-School here for the ages.
- Be curious, and follow that curiosity to real answers. If you want to know how a skyscraper gets built, call the architect, the designer of the cranes used to build it, and the operator using it to move the girders in place.
- Triangulate sources. Talk to one guy, then find two others who think he’s a crackpot.
- Science is different–look for people who know what they are talking about, not just who disagree.
- Always ask yourself, “How can I salvage this disaster?”
- Good writing is writing for the publication you work for.
