Ten tips for news writers:
1/ Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.
2/ Look for patterns.
3/ Explain it to your mother-in-law. But don't talk down to her; she's not dumb.
4/ Take note of what's happening today, remember what happened yesterday (last month, last year, etc.), and connect them.
5/ Any news story can be told in 500 words or less. Headline writers do it in five.
6/ Longer isn't always better; it's just longer.
7/ The story hasn't been written that can't be cut.
8/ "If you can't explain it to a seven-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." -- Albert Einstein.
9/ News stories are called stories because they are just that.
10/ Tell me a story.
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