Soft Skills for the New Journalist
Soft Skills for the New Journalist: Cultivating the Inner Resources You Need to Succeed

Soft Skills for the New Journalist: Cultivating the Inner Resources You Need to Succeed


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Journalism is a pool staffed by distracted lifeguards and no matter how fancy your school is, your first week in a real newsroom will feel like a shove in the small of the back into 15 feet of water. Most of us come up for air eventually, but if you’re like journalist and educator Colleen Steffen, you may still be left feeling like all that training in inverted pyramids and question lists left something important out: you! Journalism is people managing, wrestling truth and story out of the messy, confusing raw material that is a human being, and the messiest human involved can often be the reporter themselves. So it’s time to talk about it. Instead of nervously skirting the sizable EQ (emotional intelligence) portion of this IQ (intelligence intelligence) enterprise, Soft Skills for the New Journalist explores how it FEELS to do this strange, hard, amazing job—and how to use those feelings to better your work and yourself.

Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Welcome and congratulations! You’ve chosen well Chapter 1: A is for Attitude Chapter 2: I went to college with an electric typewriter, and other cautionary tales Chapter 3: Finally we get to the important stuff Chapter 4: So something shiny caught your eye Chapter 5: Working on your pitch (not the sports kind, sorry) Chapter 6: Editors have the worst ideas Chapter 7: Hi, stranger! The in-person approach Chapter 8: Can’t I just email??? Chapter 9: The shy person’s guide to not dying inside while on assignments Chapter 10: Not everyone is going to like you (unreasonable but true) Chapter 11: All about sources Chapter 12: Take a flying (imaginative) leap Chapter 13: The all-important nutgraf Chapter 14: So … I’m supposed to say what to this person? Chapter 15: OK! Finally! Interviewing! Chapter 16: Journalism magic—it’s a thing! Chapter 17: Or maybe just shut up for a minute Chapter 18: Don’t rush off to lunch just yet Chapter 19: Yes, you still need a notebook Chapter 20: Don’t be a banker Chapter 21: Get in shape Chapter 22: To outline or not to outline Chapter 23: "I hate writing; I love having written."—Dorothy Parker Chapter 24: But also … try this to love writing a little more Chapter 25: Get your crap together Chapter 26: How to tell when you’re done Chapter 27: A word about grammar Chapter 28: Developing a journalist’s conscience Chapter 29: The day after Chapter 30: Speaking of what other people think … Chapter 31: You did it! You’re done! Chapter 32: WWNBD? (What would Nellie Bly do?) Chapter 33: Keep your head in the game Chapter 34: I believe in you! Goodbye!

About the Author :
A Kentucky native, Colleen Steffen earned her B.A. in journalism from Franklin College (go Grizzlies!) in Franklin, Ind., and her M.A. in English literature from the University of North Florida—but honestly she learned most what she knows the hard way, at four different daily newspapers in three different states. Stereotypically restless, she has dabbled in PR, historic preservation, 100-year-old crime investigation, and keeping a small child out of traffic. She also spent more than five years teaching future journalists at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., where she currently freelances and lives with her husband, daughter and vicious weiner-mutt. She decided to be a writer when she was 7, and she’s never been sorry yet.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781138593152
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 178
  • Weight: 288 gr
  • ISBN-10: 113859315X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Mar 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Cultivating the Inner Resources You Need to Succeed
  • Width: 152 mm


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