A manifesto for the simple scribe – 25 commandments for journalists | guardian.co.uk →
Great list any writer should cut out and keep. I’m victim to several of these, so thanks to Tim Radford for writing these short lessons. Example:
Remember that people will always respond to something close to them. Concerned citizens of south London should care more about economic reform in Surinam than about Millwall’s fate on Saturday, but mostly they don’t. Accept it. On 24 November 1963, the Hull Daily Mail sent me in search of a Hull angle on the assassination of President Kennedy. Once I had found a line that began “Hull citizens were in mourning today as …” we could get on with reporting what happened in Dallas.
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